Word: leopold
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...wimpy. On the other hand, we would be pretty shocked and disturbed by the amount of sexual violence and coercion that was a fact in the nineteenth century. We’d feel like prudes in each other’s company. 6. FM: Which is steamier: Penthouse or Leopold von Sacher-Masoch’s “Venus in Furs?”MBK: Penthouse. It’s not steamy to me...but “Venus in Furs” is not a steamy novel at all. Von Sacher-Masoch has a particular brand of eroticism...
...down, but they failed. By mid-December, wings of the two targeted hotels reopened to grand receptions and an outpouring of city pride. Despite the drums of war being sounded in New Delhi and Islamabad, life goes on. A few days after two terrorists killed 10 patrons at the Leopold Café, a popular drinking spot, I sat there and watched an elderly carpenter with a ruler and tape take measurements of the large glass pane, damaged by bullet holes, that fronted the bar. Onlookers snapped pictures of the poignant moment of recovery, camera flashes twinkling in the crystalline cracks...
...looked at a map of downtown Mumbai and circled Leopold Café? It was a savvy choice. Crowded, even late at night, and no room inside to maneuver...
...York Times op-ed this weekend, Suketu Mehta, the author of an award-winning chronicle about life in Mumbai, wrote that he was already booking plane flights to his childhood city. He was going to have a drink at Leopold Café, which has reopened for business. It was his way of fighting back...
...couple of days now,” he said still under curfew on Saturday, describing what was a harrowing experience for a country and for Harvard students living in Mumbai.Earlier Wednesday evening, on his way to a club with a friend, Singh walked by the Café Leopold, and heard that there been shooting there 30 seconds earlier. “We were crossing by when that happened,” he said. “We ignored it and thought it was a drug deal gone foul.”Singh and his friend thought the firing was normal...