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...first words the giant black eagle Garuda utters after his birth at the beginning of Roberto Calassos latest book Ka are: "So many things are happening, so many stories one inside the other, with every link hiding yet more stories." Garuda's musings may be extended to the book itself, which is a collection of all the stories of Hindu mythology--some bizarre, some beautiful, many grotesque and all thoroughly engrossing--recast with an eye for the postmodern reader and his impatient but eager sensibilities. Taking a cue from the Mahabharata--a seminal Indian text containing many of the major...
...under the lights of a photo set. An assistant adjusts the giant 2K lamp and checks on the model sitting in a briefcase, some advertiser's latest ploy to sell a car. The model starts to sweat and after a few hours an awful odor fills the studio. By the end of the shoot, the model, half cooked by the lights, sits rotten and decomposed in the suitcase. Lesson: when the job calls for a salmon sitting in luggage, a photographer needs a model with very little personality: a model made of plastic...
Fifteen years later, the sign still shines in a steady constant glow so that "sometimes when [BU students] get bored [they can] turn out the lights, look out of [their] window and pretend that the Citgo sign is a giant disco ball shining light into [their] own private Studio 54." Well, no one ever said Boston was that exciting anyway...
...view is that this is a great way to put the giant foot of cable TV through the door," she said...
...Vegas now seems like a giant strip mall of world travel: let's see it faster; let's have it newer; let's not have to go far from home to visit it. Here's a suggestion to my fellow Americans: Go take a stroll along the shores of the real Lake Como, stand beneath the real Eiffel Tower-- and as a bonus, you won't have to have the constant ringing of noisy slot machines in your ears. JIM KERR Del Mar, Calif...