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...Pavic composed his novell-as-dictionary in a single language, Serbo-Croatian, and Christina Pribicevic-Zoric has translated the novel into lucid English. The novel, however, is divided into three separate dictionaries, Greek, Arabic and Hebrew, called the Red Book, the Green Book and the Yellow Book. To help orient the reader, Knopf's bookmakers have designed small icons, in the appropriate colors, that appear in the upper outside corner of nearly every page...
...purpose of music is to quiet and pacify the mind, to make it susceptible to divine influences," Cage says. "The Orient and the concept of chance gives us a mind free of likes and dislikes...
...Thai restaurants have become the trendy's choice from Kansas City to Tokyo, and the newly crowned Miss Universe is a Thai (though a resident of what Thais call their 74th province, California). SPORTS ILLUSTRATED posed this year's splashy swimsuit issue on Thailand's beaches, and a new Orient Express is scheduled to start its luxury runs from Bangkok to Singapore in less than two years. As fast as Thailand has come to Hollywood (there are scores of Thai restaurants on Melrose Avenue alone), Hollywood has come to Thailand (shooting across the political spectrum, from The Killing Fields...
...TIME interns of 1988 were chosen from 58 finalists nominated by 33 participating schools. Senior Editor Jose Ferrer helped winnow that pool down to the fortunate half a dozen. "We look at how well they think, see and write," says Ferrer. "There's no formal training program. We orient them, explain how we operate and then set them to work." Four of TIME's interns are assigned to various sections of the magazine as reporter-researchers: Borras, who attends the University of Florida, is in World; Princeton's Lee is in the Humanities cluster; Charles Poe of Baylor...
...playing Goneril and Regan, and who Cordelia? Could this be one of those Orient Express situations in which everyone is the murderer? Everyone has a motive; no question about that. Malcolm goads his whining brood without mercy, taking care to be seen splashing money and champagne in all directions but theirs as he buys racehorses and lolls about the world like a pasha...