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Today a few monuments still loom over Samarkand, overshadowing modern Soviet interlopers. From the immense ruin of Bibi-Khanym Mosque to Shah-I-Zinda's intimate alley of tombs and Tamerlane's resting place at Guri Amir Mausoleum, the city offers an imposing collection of intricately patterned towers, precise arches and azure domes. The Registan?a three-sided plaza of colossal mosaic portals, minarets and medressas (Islamic schools)?was the center of medieval Samarkand and remains the most impressive site (entry $1). In the market near Bibi-Khanym, something of the Silk Road survives as women hawk bread...
...environment. If Yuppies need snacks or food late at night, they can just go to CVS, and if they need food really late, well, most theme parks close at midnight anyway, so what are they doing out so late? Park management also decided that too many Yuppie bars would ruin the tip the nostalgia/comfort balance too much in favor of Nerdistans like Waltham, so it decided to get rid of Grafton Street and expand the bank...
...heart sinks when I see that the results are posted. I distinctly remember being passed many, many times during the race by folks going at absolute warp speed relative to my feeble plowing. I also distinctly remember - not - passing one single other skier. One thing that would ruin all this good feeling would be a dead last finish with a five-minute gap between me and the dude who was second to last (a distinct possibility considering that the only external reaction I received from anyone during the race was involuntary laughter). It would be tricky to spin that into...
...video work takes advantage of the double-screen, converging and diverging on specific images to show a dazzling array of hypnotic designs. Colors like bronze, gold, silver and marble create an almost surreal on-screen ambiance. The museum from which the film was recorded was built to resemble a ruin, which distorts the perception of time and space. Add to all this that the subtle time-lapse video recording, in which an image on one screen lags behind the same one on the other, and you feel like you are in a daze...
...just like her to be in a movie like it? and b) doesn’t Gwyneth deserve a stink bomb in the mail anyway?)…The Writers Guild of America, pissed off that reality TV shows don’t use union workers, are determined to ruin Survivor 2. They’ve advertised a list of the people getting voted off in the coming weeks. If you’re curious, check it out on www.survivorsucks.com…Next week will be the last In the (K)now ever! I’ll be quite...