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...been blind since birth. He came to Beijing five years ago from his village in the mountains of Inner Mongolia. "I wanted to go out into society," Fan says. "In the mountain valley there was no opportunity to work." In Beijing, he found a job as a masseur. "As a blind person, massage is something we can do. We'd like to do other work," he says. "Others can do all sorts of work, but we are limited to this...
...From his very first book - 1957's The Mystic Masseur, about a deceitful guru - a dislike of fraudulence and "mimic men" has run through Naipaul's corpus, as it apparently does through his latest book, A Writer's People: Ways of Looking and Feeling. Naipaul's intention with this slim volume of essays is the continued unmasking of artifice and fabrication - not in a character or a society, but this time in writing. "There is a specificity to writing," Naipaul believes. "Certain settings, certain cultures, have to be written about in a certain way ... You cannot write about Nigerian tribal...
...Though he abandoned medical school during World War II, don't discount the healing powers of Jacques Courtin-Clarins. The founder of European cosmetics giant Clarins ditched the doctor dream to soothe Paris' war wounded as a masseur and found fans with his home-brewed treatment oils. Named for a character he portrayed in a high school play (he took the name as his own in the 1970s to celebrate his success), the family-owned company helped popularize therapeutic, plant-based skin-care products and grew to include salons around the world...
...attacks, the Dahab blasts did not spark a mass exodus of tourists from the Sinai. But some Egyptians were worried that the latest terror spree may cause future holiday cancellations. "We were just waiting for the season to begin, and now this happens," said Tareq Ibrahim, 33, an Egyptian masseur, as he stood on the promenade watching the cleanup effort. "The terrorists want to kill tourism in Egypt...
Lyndon Johnson makes some memorable appearances in the book. The former President enlivened one meeting by taking off his clothes, stretching out naked on a table and calling for a masseur, meanwhile firing a stream of questions at Linowitz. Richard Nixon fidgets past, inviting Linowitz to the White House in the 1960s to discuss the author's work as chairman of a commission on campus unrest, then betraying his own insecurity by reminding Linowitz that "I went to Whittier College, not as good as Hamilton [Linowitz's alma mater], but a good school." Jimmy Carter is depicted as so preoccupied...