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...reaches the threatening threes: the third year for The Feelies. Each January I pause, in my shamble toward senility, to honor some of the people, things and events I?ve written about in the previous 12 months. With The Feelies, I take a trip back into the garage of classic pop culture and say another thank you to the refuse or relics left there among the cobwebs of memory. Perhaps I should also thank the cobwebs; for if they obstruct the clarity of the rear-view mirror, they also ornament it - they dress my favorite old songs, movies, books, magazines...
...preeminent sites for the study of, respectively, classic Hindi films and current ones. Upperstall, which offers essays on 63 movies and an equal number of stars, was my main textbook in researching Bombay?s Golden Age (the 50s to the mid-60s). At Planet Bollywood, in addition to reviews of new pictures, and the music from them, you?ll find gossip, box office charts, movie trailers and a link to Lollywood (Lahore movies). Both sites are handsomely presented and nicely maintained...
...anything to go by. The thin, neat frames in gunmetal and black, so beloved over the past two years, are well past their sell-by, as are rimless models. In their place, expect lots of ovals and cat's-eyes, and even more mirror coating and patterned plastics. The classic Ray-Ban Aviator is tipped to make a big comeback, while die-hard fashionistas will flip over multilayered lenses, allowing tone-on-tone coloring. Be seen at the poolside in nothing less...
...Schless project exponential growth in the number of such communities. By 2006 new retirement communities will have sprouted up alongside at least six major colleges and universities, including the University of Texas, UC Davis, Purdue, Stanford, Denison, Penn State and the University of Florida. The Stanford center, called the Classic Residence by Hyatt, in northern California won't open until May 2005, but 305 of the 388 units have already been sold. Starting at $600,000 a unit, prices rise to $3.9 million for a 4,200-sq.-ft. three-bedroom apartment...
...Margaret Mead called PMZ (post-menopausal zest). "Indeed, some women begin to have orgasms for the first time as they grow older," write Dr. Robert Butler and his wife, psychotherapist Myrna Lewis, in The New Love and Sex After 60 (Ballantine Books; 400 pages), the latest edition of their classic advice book...