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There are the chess-players, the guitar-players and the mimes that perform their silent acts by the pit. There are the bands playing while a crowd of Harvard students and locals mesh together. There are the coffee shops, where Pulitzer Prize winners and distinguished professors rub shoulders with the homeless...
WHAT'S NEW ABOUT YOUR THIRD SEASON? We'll embrace everything we've done in the past--Dr. Phil families, weight loss, silent epidemics--but we'll also take on some bigger social issues. A lot of places in America are losing control of young people with teenage pregnancies, drunk driving, drugs in the schools and things like that. We're going to turn a bright light on that...
...rare dolphin that might inhabit its waters, and Kanai, a bored rake from Delhi on the lookout for a more common sort of catch?a lonely American. Things go topsy-turvy for Kanai when Piya decides her search for the dolphin will need the expert guidance of Fokir, a silent, brooding local fisherman who exudes immense sexual charisma. This irritates Kanai, who tries to prove to Piya that talkative, urbane men aren't short on sexual charisma, either. The three of them head off on a boat to find a few dolphins. Sexual tension piles up, and myriad facts about...
DIED. FAY WRAY, 96, shriektacular heroine of the original King Kong and other thrillers of the early talkie era; in New York City. Still in her teens when she started in silent films, she developed the scream she would make famous in later films like Mystery of the Wax Museum and Doctor X. She had to fight off all kinds of movie beasts, getting pawed by Erich von Stroheim in The Wedding March and Wallace Beery in Viva Villa! But the great ape was her strangest, strongest suitor, in a horror film that was also a poignant love story...
...pretty girl got on the subway with a big, squished cockroach on the back of her dress. Horrified, the rest of us in the car looked at each other. Should one of us tell her? Exchanging silent looks we telepathically concurred that it was impossible. Better to leave it and save her from such a shock in a public place. It was a uniquely urban moment that would have been perfectly at home in recent books, "Amy and Jordan" by Mark Beyer and "How Loathsome" by Ted Naifeh and Tristan Crane. Both contain all of the paranoia, sleaze, danger...