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...Garden of Guilt. This was in the 50s, when everything priapic was prohibited, and when I was just grazing my teen years. Like a boy sidling up to the pharmacy counter to ask for, demand, his first condom, the 13-year-old Child Corliss sought out Playboy at distant drug stores, put my 50 cents in the palms of blind newsies. Before Playboy, the only magazines I had bought were comic books. Hugh M. Hefner had connived to introduced me both to the publishing industry and to public stealth at a single ... stroke...
...that, especially if you're from New Jersey?" So instead they wrote Red Dragon Tattoo, about an exuberant moron who gets inked to impress a girl, and Utopia Parkway, which described guys a shade too old to be posting flyers for their band. The songs were ironic without being distant, and catchy without being Creed. And they didn't sell...
...known how difficult the process was going to be, I'm not sure we would have embarked on it," he says, reflecting on his work of the past three years. "We put up with a lot. But as AIDS researchers, we could not continue to be distant from the vast majority of patients...
Viewers don't play this movie like a video game. They are seduced to live inside it. In one brilliant visualization, the hobbit Pippin (Billy Boyd) manages to light a bonfire at the top of Gondor to alert his distant comrades to a military victory. On a far hill, a second fire is lit, its flame echoed on farther mountaintops, on and on into the dawn. At last, it's wartime...
...truck starts rolling north again. Roughly three days later they cross into Libyan territory. A few hundred kilometers later - and after 10 days in the truck - the driver brakes to a halt and tells the Somalis to hop off the back. One of the smugglers points north toward a distant, green landscape: "There is Kufra," he says, the oasis outpost in southern Libya. For more than an hour, the Somalis walk along an unpaved road toward what Abdi Salan fears is nothing more than a mirage. FROM KUFRA TO ZLITAN It's disorienting to be back in civilization, and Abdi...