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...nine Steps," "The Man Who Was Thursday" - Great Lit Lite. It was very much a boy?s game (Moorhead and Arlene Francis got the rare women?s roles) and the Mercury actors would play it for all its worth, with a thrill in the voice and, one imagines, a smile in the eyes. The tone was nothing so easy or derisive as Camp; its Victorian-era salesmanship made it simultaneously real and fake...
Sandra Gonçalves is 17 years old, with long dark hair and a smile that sparkles with enthusiasm. Just after 8 a.m., she's already busy at her workstation on the fourth floor of a state-of-the-art training school - all gleaming white concrete and smoked glass windows. Venetian blinds are drawn against the morning...
...handsome and spirited as a meadow full of Irish thoroughbreds, as tough as a blackthorn shillelagh, as ruthless as Cuchulain, the mythical hero who cast up the hills of Ireland with his sword. The tribal laws permit extremes of individualism, though most Kennedys look alike when they smile. When they are together, the family foofaraws are noisy and the discussions continuous, but when they are apart, their need for constant communication strains the facilities of the telephone company and the U.S. postal service. No matter where they happen to be, the Kennedys are a cable-stitched clan. The sisters communicate...
...weeks before last friday's Constitutional Court 8-7 acquittal of Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra of corruption charges, you could see the toll the impending verdict was taking on him. The eyes sagged. The usually smooth skin seemed more wrinkled. The smug smile would occasionally straighten, the corners of his thin-lipped mouth almost turning to a resigned frown. If he was bitter, however, he would never admit it, not to a reporter, nor to his Cabinet, and probably not to his friends. Yet the possibility his tenure would be abbreviated by a guilty ruling had become the defining...
...mistakenly assuming that Thais are somehow more tolerant of badly washed food and dirty cutlery. The following places don't have air-conditioning to match global fast-food chains?but neither do they serve homogenized pap. Some have English-speaking staff and translated menus; when they don't, just smile and point. Prices are often as heavenly as the food...