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...slaughtering yard surrounded by piles of yellow and green intestines, the concrete floor awash with blood. On the right, a group of men squat on the floor in a row, holding a four-meter reticulated python. Even in the dim light of the slaughtering shed, the crisscross pattern of green, yellow, henna and black stripes that gave the snake its name glows with vivid life. The men flip the wriggling creature over, exposing its white underbelly. With practiced ease the python is slit open and gutted, then flung into a corner amidst the hoses and plastic buckets full of blood...
...wonder about Delisle's own, unstated and unexamined prejudices that may have prevented him from fully accessing these people. Pyongyang's depiction of North Koreans as strange, weak (in their inability to critically examine and overthrow an utterly corrupt government) and exploitable by the West fits an unfortunate pattern of past such depictions of Asians. How much of the book's depictions come from Delisle's own cultural expectations? The answer remains debatable. Many of the things he highlights as particularly weird or objectionable have arguable counterparts in the west - something the author never examines...
...missing today. The biggest problems that now face America aren’t of the textbook variety: enemies do not identify themselves with bright red uniforms, nor do natural catastrophes necessarily obey rules of prediction. Until the administration chooses to confront this truth, it condemns itself to the same pattern of complacency, negligence, and rhetorical bandaging that by now has become its signature...
...PONCHO YOU WORE WHEN YOU LEFT PRISON? When I left prison, I wore the poncho because it was a cool night and it matched my jeans and it was just gorgeous and caught everybody's eye. A couple days later, a very industrious company that sells yarn put the pattern on their website, and 1 million designs were downloaded. They let us put an invitation on their site asking anybody who made a poncho to come be in the audience of the show. We got between 10,000 and 15,000 responses within an hour, and just over...
...package at the Paradise in Davie, Fla., is an Egyptian-themed extravaganza. Moviegoers follow the purple-tiled pattern of the Nile between hieroglyph-covered pillars into the lobby. Parents can leave kids in supervised playrooms. Inside the auditoriums, guests navigate wide aisles to reach red-velvet seats. At the Boca Raton Palace, Premiere customers--21 or older, please--get their own entrance to a chandeliered bar and restaurant that serves Vietnamese crab-stuffed artichoke ($16) and Black Angus beef fillet ($32). The concession stand has sushi and Taittinger Brut...