Word: derning
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...traditions that define it? In Thailand, "traditional" is now often a pejorative term, meaning low-class or old-fashioned. Many of the temple's social functions have been replaced by the mall, where, the author notes, "the principal rite is the right to shop." What matters most is looking dern. Yes, that's Thai for "modern...
...looking dern and being it are entirely different things. Clues to Thailand's recent rural past are everywhere?witness motorcycle-taxi drivers in Bangkok sewing fishing nets as they wait for their next fare. This is still very much a society in transition, a place where the National Buddhism Office in 2003 felt obliged to warn monks not to use mobile phones in public. Very Thai is a compendium of fast-disappearing folklore: fortune-tellers who divine omens from rat-bitten clothes; apothecaries who make herbal aphrodisiacs so strong that they "could make a monk leap over the temple wall...
...Live Here Anymore, Krause (it's Krau-zuh) plays Hank Evans, a writer navigating his way through a convulsing marriage. The new film features partner swapping, late-night screaming and a child who sleeps in his own dried urine because the mother (Laura Dern)--a woman with whom Evans has an affair--is so distracted by her gin and her suffering that she forgets to change the sheets...
Despite the blisters and bandages, Dern said that he did not regret the experience...
...Dern said that his only regret was that he was outdone by three students who had streaked through Annenberg earlier in the evening...