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...landed in a Canadian backwater with a young David Cronenberg, who was then near the start of an exemplarily transgressive career writing and directing meta-horror movies (Shivers, Scanners, The Fly, Naked Lunch) about the body as the ultimate toxic agent. The project was the 1977 Rabid, in which Chambers plays Rose, a car-crash victim who undergoes surgery that forces her to feed on human blood; soon she infects most of Toronto. The notion of a blond-angel porn star as the carrier of a fatal disease seemed like misanthropic science-fiction then. Within a few years, the festering...
...began his tenure, he said the SCR seemed detached from students.“We found that the SCR was largely made up of a group of older members of the Harvard senior community who knew each other and liked to come together once a week, drink cocktails, eat lunch, and then leave,” he said.Even though the Houses boasted the presence of prominent faculty members, to students, the SCR remained largely unacknowledged. “When I was an undergraduate, the SCR had a mysterious quality. We didn’t know what it was about...
...magazine I edited. Tayman knew little about technology and even less about business. And yet he dreamed of a website that would summarize car reviews from other sources and rank every model of new car. "It'll be like RottenTomatoes.com meets Kelley Blue Book," he explained to me during lunch one day last June...
...Parsis' culinary forte may have been their historic undoing. According to legend, the Arabs who invaded Persepolis during the Islamic incursions in the 10th century soon realized the only way to conquer the Zoroastrian warriors was to attack them after their traditional Sunday lunch of dhansak. The thick mutton stew served with cardamom-scented brown rice is extremely heavy and lulls its eaters into a siesta afterwards. (See the top 10 food trends...
...stopped for lunch in a fishing village where Thomas had once stayed a night after being stranded at sea. He made friends with the villagers and now returns often to introduce his tour groups. In general, as tourists, we try not to gawk at the poverty around us, but this was impossible at such close range. About 15 people lined up on the "dock" (really, a front porch) and helped us clamber from our boat over theirs and into their one-room home. There wasn't much dialogue between the groups, given that none of the tourists spoke Khmer...