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Some artistic incarnations can be dangerous to the incarnator. Eugene O'Neill's father James was a talented actor who played the Count of Monte Cristo so many times, and so lucratively, that he ruined himself for anything else. He became the part. The illusion that was his success (the count) became his failure. (And so, in the artistic hall of mirrors, his playwright son reincarnated him in A Long Day's Journey into Night in order to destroy him once again...
...speech was double-edged. Titled "How Well We Meant," it both recalled the necessity of nuclear weapons and lamented their subsequent expansion. But in the beginning "it happened to be one of those spring days where everything was lovely. The air was clear and mild, the Sangre de Cristo Mountains were distinct and sharp, the mesa on the other side--lovely! And the ride up on the old road, somewhat hair raising but very interesting, the old bridge, and then, of course, the Indians; we certainly seemed to enter a new world, a mystic world...
...Bodega: Yearning for tapas and fat Monte Cristo cigars? Then head to this relaxed venue, tel: (60-3) 2142 6368, perhaps the most chilled-out bar in the Changkat Bukit Bintang area. French windows let in a suitably sultry breeze...
...carp ponds, opium beds and mammoth buddha heads combine to make Bar SaVanh the slickest place along Jalan Doraisamy for aperitifs. Soak up the booze with tasty tidbits from CoChine, the Indo-Chinese restaurant upstairs. tel: (60-3) 2697 1180 La Bodega: Yearning for tapas and fat Monte Cristo cigars? Then head to this relaxed venue, perhaps the most chilled-out bar in the Changkat Bukit Bintang area. French windows let in a suitably sultry breeze. tel: (60-3) 2142 6368 Sao Nam: One of the most popular restaurants on the Tengkat Tong Shin row, Sao Nam serves up southern...
...family members say that Zhu had adapted well to prison life. He enjoyed working in the prison library and teaching English to inmates, and he had taken up oil painting. A portly, balding book lover who once studied economics in Italy, he had just devoured The Count of Monte Cristo and identified with the main character, who wreaks slow revenge on those who have falsely accused him. In his last week, says Fan, Zhu promised to take her on an around-the-world trip and to teach history to his nephew; he also asked for a book called In Search...