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...Woody Allen classic Sleeper, Allen's character, a health food store owner, awakes in the future to discover that everything considered bad for you - namely smoking and eating deep-fried foods - was actually beneficial to your health. What with all our present-day scientific "revelations" about what's bad (or good) for us, I've always believed it was only a matter of time before the premise of Sleeper began to materialize in the real world...
Where lies the soul of a city? Peter Ackroyd, the indefatigable chronicler of London, has always found it in the inherited store of legends, horrors, triumphs and prejudices that reverberate through the ages in the lives of its people. In his new book Thames: Sacred River, he explores the rich urban DNA along London's river, which he regards as nothing less than the city's "presiding deity...
...House power lines, a plan that the project’s team of California engineers says should theoretically work as well in a skyscraper as in Lowell House. The only thing Castine required from the College to make his plan a reality was space in the House basements to store an estimated 50 to 60 cable boxes, each of which is roughly the size of a DVD player. Castine even volunteered to run the operation himself and to supply the estimated $300,000 needed to finance the project through loans, so that it would cost the university virtually nothing...
...great movie minimalists. And Haggis has provided him with a perfectly matched context, recording without overt commentary the strip-joint, hooker-ridden town that exists to serve the needs of soldiers too young for thought to govern appetites, the kind of place where a convenience store clerk cheerfully works topless. Is the movie an analogy of Iraq? Not perfectly, but well enough. Does it say something about contemporary American cheesiness? Yes, to some degree. Does Hank Deerfield's righteousness survive only because he shifts his moral position? Yes, but mutedly, without a jarring triumphant note. This is a sad, subtle...
...themed excursion called "Haunts of a Dirty Old Man." Schave explained that the De Longpre neighborhood remains the same blue-collar, immigrant community of Russians, Armenians, and Slavs that it was in the 1960s and '70s. And around the corner is still the Pink Elephant, Bukowski's favorite liquor store. "It was at De Longpre where his explosion of work began," said Schave. "This place was the rocket booster that propelled him through the rest of his life...