Word: beirutization
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...honor of Larry Legend, a highly unsanitary game of Beirut involving chocolate-flavored coffee and paper cups commences in the fifth-floor bathroom. No one throws up?...
Social life at Harvard can at times seem bland. When undergrads grow tired of the sweaty, freshman-filled parties in Lowell Bell Tower or the monotonous common room Beirut nights, they often have nowhere to turn. But some of the residents of Leverett F-Tower have begun to offer up silly, song-filled alternatives, like last fall’s “Poltergeist: The Legacy: The Musical...
Very few screenwriters get kidnapped. In Hollywood, where most of them live and work, they're considered low-value targets. But moments after arriving in Beirut in 2002, Stephen Gaghan, the Oscar-winning writer of Traffic, found himself in what seemed to be a hostage situation. His cell phone rang, and the voice on the other end said, "I've got something really special you can do, but you have to do it right now and I can't tell you what it is." Gaghan walked out of the airport and got into a car with a stranger. As they...
Gaghan developed his own connections ("It's exactly like backpacking from hostel to hostel," he says of navigating the social byways of the oil industry) and traveled alone to Beirut. There he was abducted by Hizballah and rewarded with such colorful Fadlallah quotes as "People moved to terrorism are like the people in a school or post office who are pressured, feeling there is no alternative" and "You can go to www .fadlallah org. Gaghan knew by then that an Arabist ex-- CIA agent would be a major character in the aborning film. But as in Traffic, he wanted multiple...
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