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...propensity to break down. Beyond the broken clutch handle, our trip also saw a friend's handlebars come loose and a mysterious power problem in one bike that stumped four mechanics. But enthusiasts say it's all part of the Minsk experience. "Expect to have some fun improvising with gaffer tape, wire, sticks, rocks and tractor parts," reads the Hanoi-based Minsk Club's official repair manual. On Vietnam's winding northern tracks, the journey is often the destination?and so are the repairs...
...taxpayers' money in the process. Exposed electrical cabling runs along the ceiling's chipped I beams. The plaster walls of the main exhibition space are randomly gashed and pockmarked. The café's price list is scrawled onto sheets of brown paper and stuck to untreated concrete pillars with gaffer tape. Using public money and private contributions from sponsors like Pioneer and Bloomberg, Bourriaud and Sans recreated the atmosphere of a seedy Berlin squat in the heart of Paris' opulent 16th arrondissement. But what does all this nouveau squalor have to do with contemporary art? The curators don't explain...
...Korea/Japan 2002, French gaffer Roger Lemerre will be joined - in battle - by compatriot coaches Henri Michel (Tunisia), Bruno Metsu (Senegal) and Philippe Troussier (co-host Japan). These men are part of a long list of French managers whose personal success and exposure to France's remarkable player-development program won them jobs guiding national teams, professional clubs - and occasionally, as in Troussier's case, improving the entire structure of a country's soccer system. Troussier's three-year drive to recast the Japan Football Association a la français has already begun to bear fruit: under the 46-year...
...these films continue their run in theaters, I only hope that the lachrymosity of the crowds is but a fleeting spasm of emotion, emotion best forgotten along with the name of the gaffer, which scrolls down the screen while people remain seated in somber reflection. I won't worry about Titanic, an admittedly moving film about puppy love on a sinking ship. Short of bankrupting Carnival Cruise Lines, there is not much societal impact the film can expect to have...
...around 9 p.m., Kevin Carter backed his red Nissan pickup truck against a blue gum tree at the Field and Study Center. He had played there often as a little boy. The Sandton Bird Club was having its monthly meeting there, but nobody saw Carter as he used silver gaffer tape to attach a garden hose to the exhaust pipe and run it to the passenger-side window. Wearing unwashed Lee jeans and an Esquire T shirt, he got in and switched on the engine. Then he put music on his Walkman and lay over on his side, using...