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...when Karen Mok says "So what?" she sounds to the manor born. In one marvelous moment in Young and Dangerous 3, she gets hit by a car while rollerblading down a busy street. As four hip Hong Kong lads clamber out of the car to check if she's O.K., Mok adjusts herself, stands back up on the blades and calls them "a bunch of f____ing d___heads." They stare gormlessly at the Chinese beauty who stands before them delivering a beautifully intonated insult?in English. It's a scene that defines Mok, soign? with plenty of street...
...long as the trip is appropriate to the child's interests and energy level, a grandparent can take a child traveling at almost any age, say experts. For Elaine and Mark Ganeles, both 59, of Cortland Manor, N.Y., it was a kick to see Washington, a city they know well, with their grandsons, 2 and 5. "I find it exciting to see things through the eyes of the little guys," says Elaine. "They loved the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum, going into the space capsule, the moon rocks." Many grandparents say the ideal years for these jaunts are between...
...skips down stairs leading to the basement of his 10,000-sq.-ft. colonial manor in Brookville on New York's Long Island. Half the basement is being turned into a bar. The other half bristles with expensive, high-tech equipment and is littered with CDs, papers and recent photographs of friends and family taken by his wife, Dayanara Torres, 26, with her new digital camera. For the past three weeks, Anthony has spent entire evenings down here, smoking more Newports than usual, as he gets closer to completing his album. He digs through a pile of CDs. "This album...
BROOKLYN, N.Y.—The sprawling complex just minutes away from my Lefferts Manor home might be the world’s most famous housing project. This is hardly a result of its physical virtues—the orange brick façade and the green balcony ledges stand out only as eyesores, striking examples of an architectural period my friend’s mother once dubbed “Early Ugly.” But a sign on the Bedford Avenue side reveals the site’s significance to the uninformed: Ebbets Field. There used...
...Palestinians are suffering under a heavy-handed Israeli backlash." Is he indicating that the Israelis have the unmitigated chutzpah not to cooperate docilely with their own annihilation? What are they to do--just sit and wait for the knives of the terrorists to be sharpened? RUDOLPH A. MASRY Briarcliff Manor...