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...From the rim of a valley near the biblical city of Sodom on Israel's Dead Sea, the cave of Nahal Hemar (Hebrew for Asphalt River) is clearly visible in the face of the opposing limestone cliff, 9 ft. above the valley floor. Over the centuries, hyenas and nomadic shepherds have used the cave for shelter, and since the 1940s discovery of the famed Dead Sea Scrolls in another cave 40 miles to the north, Bedouin shepherds have scoured through Nahal Hemar vainly seeking similar treasures. Had the Bedouins probed deeper into the cave floor, their search might have been...
Elmore Leonard gives this piece of business a nice wrinkle by delaying the punch line for eleven pages. Don't ask how; the ploy works like the rim shot of a drummer perking up a lounge comic's routine. Leonard may not be the tightest plotter on the popular thriller circuit, but he is the writer who pays closest attention to getting the tacky details right. Bribing a night clerk with a greasy cheese-steak sub is something that could happen only in the Philadelphia-South Jersey axis of ethnic indigestibles...
...bright red bar. Chicago's Tigerman, known for his theatrical home designs, created "Sunshine," in which bold colors interplay with a cartoon-cute pink angel. The elegant and evocative "Majestic," by Stern, a professor of architecture at Columbia University, combines art deco gilt ornament with a ruby-red rim. Meier's "Professor" barware employs etched lattices that suggest both Louis Tiffany and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe; the motif is echoed on a dramatic silver bowl mysteriously titled "King Richard...
...July 1966, Stephen Young was walking through the village of Ban Chiang in northeastern Thailand when he tripped across history. "I stumbled over the root of a kapok tree and ended up spread-eagle in the dirt, and under my face was the rim of a pot," recalls Young, who was then a 20-year-old Harvard student spending the summer researching a political-science thesis...
Ever since French Novelist Prosper Mérimée locked a lustful Navarrese soldier and a lubricious Spanish gypsy in fatal embrace, Don José and his Carmen have danced their deadly Habanera through ligh art and mass culture. Although burdened with a sanitized libretto, Composer Georges Bizet transformed Mérimée's cautionary tale into a supercharged epic of erotic obsession that has become a fecund source of material for generations of movie directors. Cinematic treatments have run the gamut from Charlie Chaplin's burlesque Carmen (1916) to the soft-porn Carmen, Baby...