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...that he and Mood-swing Sid spent nine months circling the globe for the series of Holiday magazine articles that became the book "Westward, Ha!" Perelman, in a paean to his pal, described Hirschfeld as "a pair of liquid brown eyes, delicately rimmed in red, of an innocence to charm the heart of the fiercest aborigine, and a beard which could engulf everything from a tsetse fly to a Sumatra tiger. In short, a remarkable combination of Walt Whitman, Lawrence of Arabia, and Moe, my favorite waiter at Lindy...
Young patrons of the lounges agree that part of the hookah's charm lies in its illicit associations. "It looks illegal," says Gypsy customer Armen Piskoulian, 18, with a grin, sucking on his hookah with the insouciance of the blue caterpillar in Alice in Wonderland, "but it's not." Others say it's not just stoner chic that has made the hookah a hit with the collegiate crowd. Post-9/11 headlines have also played a part. "They're hearing about Middle East this and Middle East that," says the Habibi's Mickey Fathi. "They can come here...
...course, Fuller's brand of evanescent, assembly-line pop has been blamed for an alleged decline in more original music. But pop has always been disposable--that's part of its tacky charm. Says Ged Doherty, president of BMG Music Division U.K.: "What reality TV has shown is that if you give the public something they actually want, they will buy it in the hundreds of thousands...
...service at the company his grandfather and namesake founded in 1899. But now, handpicked by grandpa, the lanky World War II veteran was handed the outright leadership of what had grown into Europe's second largest automaker. Agnelli, himself already known on the jet-set circuit for his Italian charm and bold couture, decided to introduce the world to the good-looking little cars his company churned out in Turin. Agnelli's gift was his faith in the selling power of all that is Italian, says Maurizio Dallocchio, dean of the business management school at Milan's Bocconi University...
...Danish explorer Vitus Bering?Xfor whom the Bering Sea and Strait are named?Xis a morass of Soviet-style apartment blocks and potholed streets, incongruously framed by a mist-swathed harbor and snowcapped volcanoes. Its few hotels and restaurants are drab. Yet we found a certain eccentric charm in menus featuring "fern salad" and "boiled pieces of paste" for breakfast and "burning mussels with rice" and "cowberry drink" for dinner...