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...steeper. The rocks slip and clatter, startling ring-tailed dragon lizards that jut their jaws at the intruder in seeming defiance. A balancing hand placed carelessly into the spinifex needles is rewarded with a dozen tiny dots of blood; peripheral vision catches the thick brown tail of a snake gliding face-high a meter away. This is not the place to suffer even a minor injury...
...manage to cut the road just outside the city. In response, locals begin flagging down approaching cars, warning drivers of the checkpoints ahead and showing them how to avoid the blockade by taking a circuitous side route. Later, when U.S. troops close the road between Kufa and Najaf, prayergoers snake around back streets, along dusty trails and through a massive garbage dump. The mounds of trash give cars almost perfect cover as they slip into Kufa in time for prayers...
Kennedy confidant and journalist Ben Bradlee has his initials tattooed on his right buttock, with a snake wrapped around them. You can read this little fact either as part of what book reviewers like to call a "wealth of historical detail" or as symptomatic of a fetishistic interest in the most insignificant minutiae of the presidency of John F. Kennedy. Either is fine, but decide now, because there's a lot more where that came from in Sally Bedell Smith's Grace and Power: The Private World of the Kennedy White House (Random House; 608 pages...
...this being a Tarantino film, the conversations are as long and lurid and finely choreographed as the martial-arts set pieces. (The auteur is a bit of a diva himself: he loves arias, visual and verbal.) So you get a lecture on the toxic properties of the black mamba snake and a disquisition on the psychological duality of Superman...
...tomb would ensure a comfortable existence in the afterlife; unlike the tombs of most pharaohs, Tut's was not robbed, so many of these objects survived. Among those on display are Tut's crown, an ebony game board, an alabaster ointment vase, a painted wood figurine of a snake god with wings and a human head (pictured) and a statuette of an Egyptian deity, Ptah, made from gilded wood and faience. The museum is expecting half a million visitors; tickets can be ordered online at www.tutankhamun.ch...