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...things un-Thai. The country is a cultural fusion of East and West, old and new, all effortlessly assimilated. The Thai horoscope, for example, is a baffling hybrid of Chinese, Indian and Western systems. Thai beauty queens still scoop their hair into a style called a faaraa, as in Farrah Fawcett. One of the most beloved singers of Thai country music is a Swede called Jonas. This ability to digest foreign influences is sometimes literal: villagers plagued by Bombay locusts 10 years ago solved the problem by frying and eating them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Thais That Bind | 3/7/2005 | See Source »

...fittingly, I had lied to Al Franken, the author of Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them, about reading it. So Fey grabbed the book from the communal library of her swanky Manhattan apartment building and made me steal it. I say made because Tina Fey is the Farrah Fawcett of the world of geek boys, and in 1977, Farrah could have wiped out Barnes & Noble if she had wanted to. But I also say me because Fey would never do something like that herself. "The girls I know in comedy are all very earnest in person," she says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Goddess of the Geeks | 4/26/2004 | See Source »

...finally dying of a heart attack in a train station restroom. Thirty years after his death, Kahn’s son has created a tribute to him on film, glorying in his architectural triumphs, but supplementing the laurels with an honest assessment of his personal failings. Farrah Fawcett wasn’t one-tenth as interesting as this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Happening | 4/16/2004 | See Source »

...finally dying of a heart attack in a train station restroom. Thirty years after his death, Kahn’s son has created a tribute to him on film, glorying in his architectural triumphs, but supplementing the laurels with an honest assessment of his personal failings. Farrah Fawcett wasn’t one-tenth as interesting as this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Weekend Listings | 3/19/2004 | See Source »

...finally dying of a heart attack in a train station restroom. Thirty years after his death, Kahn’s son has created a tribute to him on film, glorying in his architectural triumphs, but supplementing the laurels with an honest assessment of his personal failings. Farrah Fawcett wasn’t one-tenth as interesting as this...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, THE CRIMSON STAFF | Title: Happenings | 3/12/2004 | See Source »

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