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...cold, wet afternoon Shah decided he'd had enough of London. The result was The Caliph's House, a lively account of how the travel writer moved his pregnant wife and young daughter to Casablanca, buying a decrepit Arabian Nights complex once owned by a real caliph. Shah encountered slothful house-renovation crews and irascible neighbors, but also had to dodge gangsters, suicide bombers, plagues of rats and - worst of all - jinns, the spirits that many Moroccans believe are hazards of daily life. He learned to deal with the jinns the Moroccan way, sprinkling drops of his blood...
...book treads through territory familiar to anyone with a passing knowledge of the Beatles’ history. Their rough early years in Liverpool as the Quarrymen; the band’s evolution as a cohesive musical force in the decrepit red-light district of Hamburg; their subsequent return to Liverpool; the sudden stardom; their appearance on Ed Sullivan and Beatlemania in America; their reinvention amid the “Sergeant Pepper” years; and finally, the break-up, infamously hastened by tensions from Linda Eastman and Yoko...
...parody of the light musical comedy that dominated Broadway between the World Wars. Underneath the strained gaiety lurks family tragedy. That sets up Act II, which is simply a musicalizing of the movie, this time with Ebersole as Little Edie and Wilson as the matriarch of that decrepit mansion...
...China. Brightly dresssed townspeople stroll along the tree-lined promenade, courting teenagers mixing with office workers and doting parents chasing a single, precious child, many of them toting shopping bags from nearby malls. But this is anything but a normal town, because just across the river stands the decrepit North Korean city of Shinnuiju. As the main crossing point on China's 880-mile border with its purported ally, Dandong has suddenly been thrust into the international spotlight as U.N. sanctions over North Korea's nuclear test come into effect...
...Malkin Athletic Center (MAC)—our old and decrepit gym—is scheduled for an infrastructure overhaul beginning this spring. The building was, after all, built in 1930. It will open again, and it will be better: “More pleasant, efficient, and with a new elevator,” promised Wendy Healy, general manager of the MAC. With the College’s recreational athletic facilities lagging far behind its peers, we are looking forward to be greeted next fall by a new MAC.The MAC has needed renovation for longer than most current students have...