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...World War II, Joseph Stalin's personal movie library expanded. His army liberated Joseph Goebbels' film collection. On movie nights in the old winter garden of the Great Kremlin Palace, Stalin and his gang (a revolving cast of Bolshevik thugs and survivors) would watch Charlie Chaplin or Spencer Tracy or Clark Gable. Stalin particularly liked gangster and cowboy films; sexual content offended...
...GERMANY The Hotel-Restaurant Schloss Landsberg, about 100 km from Frankfurt, is at its best on sunny days, when guests sit in the beer garden and savor the brew from the nearby town of Meiningen. Built in 1836, the neogothic former castle of Duke Bernhard II of Saxony is stuffed with fine art and antiques. Rooms from $160 per night. tel: (49-3693) 44090; www.gast-im-schloss.de
...dinner), Markel has built in plenty of activities and road trips to round out the journey. After a few days of acclimation, there are new restaurants and teahouses in Marrakech to experience, plus gentle hikes in the Atlas Mountains, nights sleeping in the casbah and visits to the aromatherapy garden of Jalil Belkamel in the Ourika Valley. One of the most fascinating afternoons is spent in the village of Fouloust, where the argan tree, prized for its oil, is indigenous. Village women show how they crack the argan nuts in the traditional way between stones. After a lunch of grilled...
...structure rears its head in the middle of some of these new songs. As their eighth album, it represents a major shift for the band: it is their first album for new label Sub-Pop (which, ironically, was Nirvana’s first label, and the current home of Garden State favorites The Shins and the Postal Service), and was co-produced by David Friedman, famous for his work for more exuberant acts like the Flaming Lips. The pretty pop work of Friedman shines through on a number of songs, including the beautiful “California?...
Barbara, all the way up Garden Street, had also dated extensively without making any lasting connections. She met men at law school mixers and in classes. Like other girls, she went on meticulously planned dates, dressing up and going into Boston for plays, the symphony, and visits to art museums. For those who didn’t have luck finding dates, there would be consolatory milk and cookies on Saturday nights and awkward Quad formals to which they could invite men anonymously...