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While reading Robert Hughes' article "The Poetry of Pastry," on the paintings of Wayne Thiebaud [ART, July 16], I was stopped by a word very fitting but never before imagined. In describing Thiebaud's painting of pies, Hughes wrote of "coconut icing soft and fluffy as a baby angel's wingpits." Your critic outdid himself with that one. As a columnist for a small-town newspaper, I appreciate the need for a word that really fits. I've made up a few, but wingpits conjures up a physical tickle. Hughes is a treasure. JEANNE FRESHWATER Nehalem...
...stuff we can sell them," says the chief, sitting shirtless on a wooden bench, flicking at a wasp with a loose sarong. "Food, skirts, backpacks, toilet paper, even strange things. Foreigners like to buy strange things." He cites the example of travelers purchasing monkeys made from coconut shells. "The more guesthouses we open," he says, "the more money we make, and the more of our people learn to speak English, and that's good for the village." When it is suggested that tourists are coming here in part because they can get very stoned very easily, he shakes his head...
...work or she feels weak. Her husband, Ji Chiu, was first generation. He came to work the tin mines, a "sold piglet," as they were called, since they were sold by their parents with no real promise of return. She met him when she sold coconut cookies to the tin miners. They had five children, but twins died at birth...
...presumably still is intrigued and delighted by the sight of multiple-produced American food. Not so much the package (like the soup can) as the soup itself, or for that matter the sandwich, the cake or the slice of pie, sitting there in virginal garishness, the coconut icing soft and fluffy as a baby angel's wingpits, under the fluorescent tubes in the glass diner case...
...also a magnet for passing alternative health therapists touting everything from hypnotherapy to acupuncture. Ask around: while many are skilled professionals, some are clearly charlatans. Check out spasamui.com or call (66-77) 230-855 for reservations. For more upmarket bungalows, try the Tamarind Retreat, 500 m away on a coconut-palmed hillside, with its own steam room and natural plunge pool (from $50). Call (66-77) 424-221 or e-mail via tamarindretreat.com...