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...formal eponymous restaurant and the more laid-back London Bar, I'd opt for the buzzier, less stuffy bar. Its small-plates menu includes clever interpretations of traditional dishes; try Ramsay's BLT - bacon and onion cream, chilled lettuce velouté and tomato gelée in a martini glass. Come to think of it, it's a good metaphor for the hotel - a playful, beautiful twist on the time-honored. In other words, it's very London. www.thelondonnyc.com
...open, and the boy with eyes like cracked ice thrust in his fluttering and clutching hand, like a child reaching into a cave, aggressively curious but half-afraid the hand might be bitten by something in the dark. Roll it up: the hand withdrew before being caught by the glass. All the faces pressed up against the windows now (a nightmare through a fish-eye lens), and the fists beat harder on hood and roof and windshield, in a taunting, accelerating cadence: boom -- -- boom -- boom-boom-boomboomboom boom. The driver, a Palestinian whose taxi had the blue license plates...
...dense, irrational thunder, walking up the road. His legs move like scissors, stiffly; his body is jolted with anger. His eyes, looking inward and outward simultaneously, are sightless with rage. They are red and shattered, as if a bomb had gone off inside them and fractured the window glass, behind which is a red fire. He does not want to talk, but does, finally, when he has settled down. He says a Jewish settler came in a car and used an Uzi and killed his friend. The new grave is down at a crossroads by the mosque. An Israeli helicopter...
It’s hard for me—as a half-Muslim myself, but more so as an American—to not see an empty glass in this situation. Not only will these rumors cost a deserving and honest candidate votes, but they further spread the acceptability of xenophobia in our media and our society. Muslims, in particular, have become an easy target for sensationalist media with thriving post-9/11 McCarthyism. Never mind the fact that Obama is a committed Christian; an even-speculative connection to Islam is enough in some people’s eyes...
...today about the strip is its sanctified sadomasochism. No question, Tracy could dish it out, as in this sequence from 1947: "Like a whip, a piece of chain flies through the air - a chain attached to Tracy's cane handle. AGAIN AND AGAIN, the chain slashes! Tiny pieces of glass fly through the air." More often, though, Tracy was on the receiving end of the mayhem...