Word: hideaways
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...rationalist guardian (Ben Kingsley) and his withdrawn sister (Fiona Shaw). “I offer them the idea of love,” explains Mira. “[All the characters] have resolved themselves to live lives without love, completely secluded as hermits on this philosophical and scientific hideaway. But as my character says, ‘Love can derange any mind, even a famous rationalist’s.’ They’ve been fooling themselves into thinking that they were impervious to love, and that they didn’t need it?...
Here’s the final kicker: Most of the greatest places to party are right here in Cambridge. Phoenix Landing, the Cellar and the Hideaway Pub all offer more electronica delicacies than this page can list. Still, don’t be afraid to let a weekly rave—drum ’n’ bass or something else altogether—inspire a trek into Boston proper...
...intimidate and blackmail investigating magistrate Eric Halphen. At the time, Halphen was heading an inquiry into alleged illegal rpr funding from kickbacks on public-housing contracts in the district. Halphen quit the judiciary in January, complaining that his seven-year investigation had been repeatedly sabotaged. Before leaving his Caribbean hideaway, Schuller told journalists that he intended to explain how "the system which magistrates have been investigating is not that of Councilor Didier Schuller, but that of a political party...
...gravest terrorism threat may come less from Mindanao than from Manila, thought to be a prime hideaway for undetected al-Qaeda cells scattered throughout Southeast Asia. For several months Manila provided houseroom for Ramzi Yousef, mastermind of the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993. Only last week Philippine police arrested three men suspected of plotting with an al-Qaeda ring recently broken up in Singapore. Sleepers like these, with a taste for anti-American action, trained and financed by al-Qaeda, could be part of a regional terrorism fraternity operating under the banner of Jemaah Islamia, which seeks...
...Scared into near reclusion by Mark David Chapman's killing of Lennon in December 1980, Harrison spent most of his time meditating, music making, gardening and watching Formula One races on the telly at Friar Park, his extraordinary estate in Henley-on-Thames, and at his hideaway on the Hawaiian island of Maui. He ventured out occasionally to record and play with the Traveling Wilburys, a supergroup that included Dylan, Tom Petty and others. But various legal battles took up even more of his time. In 1976 he had to pay $587,000 for "subconsciously plagiarizing" the old Chiffons...