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There’s a crowd outside the gate of the U.S. embassy, huddling together under umbrellas. They wait hours before they’re allowed into the embassy vying for tourist visas they’ll probably never...
...something a little more raw, try the bars and clubs clustered around the universities in Haidian. In the 1980s this area?40 minutes northwest of the city center?was a hotbed of student activism. Now, in the hutongs across from Peking University's West Gate, local and foreign DJs spin regularly at Solutions. For directions, call (86-10) 6255-8877. Or try First Avenue Caf? and Bar at (86-10) 6264-0702. The atmosphere at both places is plain wild...
...group of middle-aged Latin American professionals who didn’t exactly speak English and didn’t exactly understand that here in North America, we don’t get touchy-feely with the girl pointing out the historic bricks used to construct Johnston Gate...even if she is looking for love in all the wrong places. Three posed pictures in front of John Harvard statue and a phat $15 tip later, I resolved to tone the smile down from yes-I-am-flirting-with-you to I’d-be-glad-to-direct...
...Pinter turned 70 last October, and a year of international tributes reaches its climax this month with a string of high-profile events. At London's New Ambassador's Theatre, the writer himself stars in a Gate Theatre of Dublin production of his One for the Road, a brutal study of torture and totalitarianism (July 3-7). Across the city, the Royal Court Theatre is performing a Pinter double-bill, Mountain Language and Ashes to Ashes. After London, the Royal Court show and One for the Road will travel to New York City with two other Gate productions, the double...
...Twenty is an impressive gate, through which one passes from one country to another. It was such a crossing for me. Behind me lay the squalid hormonal shambles of adolescence-which I remember as a roller coaster through a haunted house, myself as a skinny kid riding at breakneck speed through a heritage of bad dreams, my wildly careering, breakaway energies slamming against seemingly interminable captivity in the hands of my parents' obsessions, parents' errors, parents' judgments.... and in the hands, as well, of my own ardent and melodramatic ignorance of the world, and of what I was, or might...