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Think about it. Go to the Barker Center. The Café there is set up so you get your food and then line up to pay at the cashier’s desk. Go to the Greenhouse. You get food; and then you pay. Go to Adams House. Pay; get food. The two actions are always separate. But Fly-By, like the aforementioned meat lasagna, has chosen to mush two good things together into a semi-unrecognizable mass of epic yuckiness...
...sure sign of Hamas's emergence from the shadows is its new media office in central Gaza. Thickset, bearded men lean against the walls, watchfully. The only furniture in the otherwise empty suite is a brand new desk, behind which sits Sami Abu Zuhry, a trim 38-year-old history Professor recently named Hamas spokesman in the Gaza Strip. Abu Zuhry rejects suggestions that Hamas wants to take over Gaza now the Israelis are gone. "We don't want control," he says. "We want elections...
Drilling was one of the animators working earlier this year as the shooting of Were-Rabbit raced to its close in the Aardman sound stage, a huge warren of 30 curtained sets, some that could fit on an office desk, some about the size of the model-train layout in your loner uncle's basement. Following each of the 24,000 hand-sketched storyboards that illustrate the scenes, the animator dresses the set, puts in props (tomatoes made of wax, teddy-bear fur painted green for grass), gives each character the subtlest facial makeover and takes the picture. Animators must...
...reinvented myself again. Instead of simply editing the magazine, I came out from behind the desk and started living the life. I became the personification of the prototype that I was describing in the magazine. I became, in effect, Mr. Playboy. I started smoking a pipe. I bought a Mercedes-Benz 300SL--the coolest car. I hosted a syndicated TV show called Playboy's Penthouse, bought the first Playboy mansion and opened the first Playboy Club. In the space of a year, I became world famous...
...Line of Beauty.” Alan Hollinghurst, the winner of the 2004 Booker Prize, reads from his novel about Thatcher-era London. 6 p.m. Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle St. Free tickets are required and can be picked up at the Harvard Book Store information desk...