Word: incognitos
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...Rough sleepers," as homeless people are known in Britain, are sheltering incognito at many of the world's major airports, says Sandie Cox of Heathrow Travel Care, the organization overseeing the one-year pilot scheme. Chicago's O'Hare instituted a homeless outreach in the 1990s. Several others, including Newark-Liberty in New Jersey and Los Angeles' LAX, have done the same. Heathrow, the busiest airport in Europe, has more delays than most major hubs; the catalog of errors accompanying the March 27 opening of the $8.5 billion Terminal 5--including some 250 canceled flights and 28,000 pieces...
...ever on the radar of the artistic élite. "Photographs for Manila Envelope" - named after the local arts-and-culture magazine to which Byrne offered his photos gratis - will be held from Dec. 4-8 at the city's Cemento Gallery, tel: (63-2) 810 9858. "Byrne was very incognito when he was here," says Manila Envelope editor David Guerrero. "He avoided the five-star hotels, and went everywhere on a bicycle." That endearing lack of pretension - plus one man's never-ending curiosity about life, culture and expression - is everywhere evident in the work on display. For more information...
...Byrne was very incognito when he was here," says Manila Envelope editor David Guerrero. "He avoided the five-star hotels, and went everywhere on a bicycle." That endearing lack of pretension - plus one man's never-ending curiosity about life, culture and expression - is everywhere evident in the work on display. For more information, visit manilaenvelopeonline.com
...sometimes paid $15,000 for lucrative captaincies) and, crazy as it sounds, to compel officers to actually enforce all the laws. He scored a few successes initially, weeding out corrupt veterans. To see whether patrolmen were walking their beats, he began making the same rounds late at night and incognito--though at times in the company of a newspaper reporter. Once, Roosevelt found three bluecoats loitering outside a saloon at 2:30 a.m. "What are you men doing here?" he asked abruptly. "What the %$*&# is that your business?" snapped one of them, in vintage New Yorkese. Roosevelt, spectacles glinting, then...
...Meanwhile, the Sparkses, especially Brian, come across to the white couple as defensive, suspicious and easily offended. In some of the black couple's incognito outings, their suspicions prove justified, as when a white man volunteers that he feels the urge to wash his hands after shaking hands with a black person. But the conflicts between the couples are more ambiguous. After the "black creature" incident, Brian and Renee wonder how Carmen would feel if someone called her a "magnificent white creature." What the Sparkses apparently don't see is that the effusive, dramatic Carmen probably wouldn't be offended...