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...Largo, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre) debuts with his own adaptation of Dashiell Hammett’s 1929 classic pulp fiction novel of the same name. Hard-boiled San Francisco detective, Sam Spade (Bogart), goes head to head in search for the elusive statuette against the femme fatale (Astor), the “fat man” (Greenstreet), and his fair-weather partner (Lorre). It was nominated for three Academy Awards (Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor and Best Adapted Screenplay) and deserved all of them. This is one of the best films ever made. Tickets...
...walls of undulating glass, private bowling alleys, state-of-the-art everything. In addition to another Meier tower, three high-end condo projects are in the works. For his first apartment building, architect Charles Gwathmey is transforming a former parking lot in Greenwich Village into a 21-story tower, Astor Place (above). The building's multifaceted exterior is chiseled like a precious stone--befitting the multimillion-dollar lofts inside. Further south, just across the street from the New York Stock Exchange, the landmark Equitable Trust Building will soon become Downtown by Philippe Starck. Prices at the 326-unit conversion...
Those who use the service say they like it. "The connection is great," says Swapan Chakrabarty, 31, a graduate student and network administrator for a software firm, who goes to the Astor Place store about four times a week and stays two to three hours per visit. About the only complaints from wi-fi users are that some stores don't have enough electrical outlets...
...ourselves, TIME sent reporters to four stores that the chain identified as being especially popular among wi-fi users. And while we found lots of people using notebook computers, few were online. For example, at the Astor Place store in New York City, there were more than 100 customers one Sunday night, including 15 with laptops--but only three said they were using Starbucks' wi-fi service...
Where has the fine art of the insult gone? there was a time in Europe when the cutting gibe was a respected weapon in political discourse. Lady Astor, Winston Churchill's nemesis, once said to him: "If I were your wife I would put poison in your coffee." Churchill didn't demand an apology or file a human-rights complaint. He just shot back: "And if I were your husband I would drink it." But these days we get the insult without the art, and so we respond with self-righteous outrage. Last week, when a German Member...