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...Davies' adaptation of John Kennedy Toole's The Neon Bible, the central character says, "If you were different from anybody else in town, you had to get out." In one sense, Davies escaped his youth; in another, he keeps returning. And his imaginative understanding of it hits the viewer, even one who's never visited or cared about Liverpool, with the shock of recognition. Among the many snatches of poetry and pop songs in the film are these lines from T.S. Eliot's Little Gidding: "We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will...
...Oyeniyi eschews the butch lesbian stereotype, instead wearing formfitting, feminine clothing and playing with her long hair as she talks. Even the Girlspot Web site defies societal expectations with a neon pink background...
...listen for Lady GaGa and I’ll be in there, somewhere. Your best pick up line: Wanna see me burn my bra? Best or worst lie you’ve ever told: That stylized flannel you’re wearing goes so well with your neon sunglasses! Favorite childhood activity: Prancing around the house to Mariah Carey’s “Daydream” CD Sexiest physical trait: I work really hard on my cuticles. Best part about Harvard: The mac and cheese the Kirkland chefs serve at dinner when they run out of everything else...
Blink and you might just miss it. The blur of crisscrossing hands and zigzagging neon cups is probably the weirdest organized sport you've never heard of. Dubbed sport stacking, this rapid-fire competition could at first glance be mistaken for some peculiar carnival game. Players are tasked with arranging 12 lightweight plastic cups into various formations; a stacking kit comes with a touch-pad timer and cups that have a trio of holes in the bottom to reduce air resistance. At slower speeds, it seems easy enough: build up pyramids and break them down in a predetermined sequence...
...Thai Lunar New Year is usually a time when guns line the streets of Bangkok. Water guns, that is, manned by revelers who spray passersby to summon plenty of rain for the coming year's harvest. But today, as this Thai New Year began, the usual neon-hued water guns were supplanted by submachine guns held by soldiers who were trying to disperse the agitated antigovernment protesters who have blockaded part of central Bangkok for days...