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...biggest draw is the weekend night life. With more than 60 clubs packed into central Reykjavik, the drinking, dancing and nuzzling go on past 6 a.m. "The winters are long and hard here, and people get depressed, so we let it all hang out on the weekend," says Birgir Orn Steinarsson, 25, lead singer for an up-and-coming Icelandic rock group called Maus. Most revelers go from club to club in a giant pub crawl that can jam Reykjavik's narrow streets with up to 5,000 drunken kids every Friday and Saturday night. Some clubs feature deejays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Unfrozen North | 3/26/2001 | See Source »

...ridiculous but champions the sane and normal. His protagonists are ordinary guys desperately trying to fend off the world's idiocies and evils long enough to define themselves and do the decent thing. They rarely succeed completely. Solitary Baseball. The fourth-generation writer in his family, Sheed was ?orn in London, the son of Maisie Ward and Frank Sheed (of the Catholic publishing firm Sheed & Ward). When he was nine, his family moved to Torresdale, Pa., a town not unlike the setting for Pennsylvania Gothic. Finding the literary atmosphere at home oppressive," he plunged passionately into sports. The only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sheed's Specters of the Past | 9/20/1968 | See Source »

...passed but it must have been a dull fellow who did not carry with him the memory of those twenty minutes through the remainder of the day. It got inside as, if nothing more, an emotional experience. It left one conscious of what lies back all exteriors. FREDERICK ORN BARTLETT...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 2/26/1923 | See Source »

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