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...span of history." Iain Banks thinks Dead Air slots into the second category, which examines the state of the world after the attacks. The story, about radio DJ Ken and his affair with a gangster's wife, begins with guests at a party merrily throwing random objects from the roof of a tall building. (Images of falling pervade the book.) Then comes the news from New York. Ken starts filling his radio airtime with political diatribes, on topics ranging from the Bush presidency to the Middle East. "Ken's arguments, although caricatured, crystallize today's issues," says Banks. "He wants...
...position when I stumbled upon a mention of the Green Plaza Shinjuku in a magazine, but grew alarmed at the cheesy, basement entrance. I ascended to the 10th floor, and was relieved to find the 24-hr. spa clean and respectable. Moreover, it features a real gem on its roof: the rotenburo, or outdoor bath. There's something gleefully luxurious about floating in a steaming hot bath the size of a small swimming pool, gazing out at the city lights...
...van—along with a hybrid Toyota Prius with a tree seemingly growing on the roof and an RV with charts of military spending—were driving along the Harvard Square leg of a national “parade” to create awareness of government spending priorities and get more people involved in progressive politics...
...while sleeping on the floor will go down as the worst experience during my last three years of renting housing for the summer—it only serves to complete the hat trick of summers that I’ve been bamboozled in seeking to put a roof over my head...
...when his older brother John visited Medzilaborce. With his help, the museum opened in 1991 and survived initial protests - 1,700 signed a petition against it - and a fair share of financing and operating problems: it took the town nine years to fix the museum's leaky roof that at times would flood the exhibition halls...