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There’s a distinct thrill to listening to music of all kinds (my playlist is apt to jump from ZZ Top to Handel’s Messiah…top that.) It’s refreshing, in a kind of hairpin turn, mind-bending sort of a way. If people ask you what music you listen to, you can shake your head slowly, with a wry smile and honestly say, “Oh…all kinds. That’s the kind of guy I am.” And wait for the women...
...this day, getting to Pai demands initiative. The Thai government widened and paved the endless series of hairpin bends in 1980, but the stomach-churning journey from Chiang Mai still takes two to three hours by private van. Adventurous budget travelers were the first foreigners attracted to Pai's idyllic isolation, burbling streams, cylindrical haystacks and manicured fields of garlic and soybeans. If you overlook the thatched-roof bamboo huts, Muslim mosque?some of the KMT were Muslim Chinese?and Buddhist temples, the place looks almost like a Monet painting...
...insular. Even today, reaching this historical jewel of China's Jilin province is no easy task. From Beijing it means an overnight train to the Manchurian sprawl of Shenyang, then another eastward to the industrial city of Tonghua, followed by a gut-churning hour in a taxi via the hairpin turns and dense forests of the precipitous peaks of the Changbai range. Simply reaching Ji'an's narrow valley sanctuary along the Yalu River in one piece feels like a miracle...
...Florida recount was five weeks of spin overload. The sheer volume of the stuff (in the sense of both quantity and noise level) was impressive enough. Consider as well how effortlessly the spin machine handled all the hairpin turns. Every amazing development and reversal in the drama was converted within minutes into two or three talking points for each side to repeat without mercy...
...role of Mag Folan is a difficult one, for it demands that the actor navigate Mag's hairpin turns of character with absolute authority. Mary Klug triumphs in her role, giving her character a keenly humorous sense of self-awareness. She is both charming and hateful, both pathetically helpless and maliciously cunning. Susanne Nitter as Maureen also handles the diverse nuances of her character with great ease. Alternately imperious and juvenile, she resembles nothing so much as a rebellious teenager encountering a midlife crisis. Next to these harpies, the two supporting male characters appear as all sweetness and light. Derry...