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...Booth's appetite for Hong Kong's idiosyncrasies is already whetted. He encounters a woman with bound feet, a waiter whose tongue was cut out by the Japanese as a punishment and a dentist whose recollections of wartime internment are so gruesome that Booth endures the drill without novocaine or complaint. He learns how to eat boiled beetles, polish ancestral bones during the Festival of Hungry Ghosts and speak rudimentary Cantonese. He spends long afternoons wandering around what was then a quiet city of green hills and mysterious alleys, catching geckos and digging up spent bullets?and, one scary...
...paradise? We all seek betterment and the perfect paradise that we envision for ourselves. Toward that end, we are a few steps closer today to the paradise that we craved for yesterday. And as Iyer rightly points out, quoting the Zen temple sign, it's right beneath our feet. Saritha Rao Chennai, India...
...will carry a meager array of clothes and, if we're lucky, keep them dry. After putting in two pairs of thick socks - one for bed, one for around camp - I add the pair I'll wear during the day, the pair that will stay wet, and keep my feet wet, for the entire trip. With no room for luxuries like a hairbrush, I find space to stash away some chocolate. When we meet at the bus for the drive to the tributary where we'll inflate our two rafts, our companions' bags look just as lumpy as mine. They...
...stay. Why the knowing glances in a bar’s inner bowels between complete strangers from Harvard and Northeastern, followed not long thereafter by an unprovoked chant of “Yankees suck!”? Why the need to inject themselves into conversations 30 feet away to curtly ask whether they could “wipe their ass with...
...learned well: some of Krause's best scenes in Six Feet Under have him playing the easygoing dreamer who helps his tightly wound TV brother come out of the closet. The square jaw covered by a few days of beard, his perfect grin flashing, the California attitude--"He's a guy you're instantly prepared to like onscreen," says John Curran, who directed Krause in We Don't Live Here Anymore. With luck we'll see more of that guy--and less of the tortured victim--when Krause's blue period ends...