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During his six-week sojourn in Thailand last summer, Roy Prieb '95 received a marriage proposition. "I was walking along the main street in Nan, which is a small close-knit village in southern Thailand, when I met these two old ladies, who started chatting with me," says Prieb, who speaks Thai fluently. "Next thing I know, they try to set me up with their granddaughters...
Lorena Bobbitt is not the first woman to have ever sliced up part of a man's genitals. According to an article in theAmerican Journal of Surgery, in Thailand in the mid 1970s at least 100 women foreshortened their philandering husbands and threw their penises out the window--a practice dubbed in local terms "feeling the ducks". But Americans need not look beyond their own continent to find other examples--in Canada two years ago a 48 year old woman who castrated her husband was also acquitted, like Lorena Bobbitt, on the grounds that she was a battered woman...
...eerie, being up here this close," says Craig Martin, a Waco TV production supervisor who covered the siege from a mile away. He is snapping photos of his parents, Baptist missionaries visiting from Thailand. "I could see how it burned so fast in this wind," observes a tourist from Minnesota, "but what really happened...
...tell the truth, no ambitious movie is quite so simple as magazine trend pieces may try to make it seem. Certainly not Heaven & Earth, which is thematically grotesque but visually gorgeous: the camera takes in the spectacle of Southeast Asia (Thailand mostly, stunt-doubling for Vietnam) with the rapture of an intelligent lover. Because it traces Phung Le Ly's life story, the film is dramatically misshapen: its most singing moments are in the first half. And audiences may be as weary of Stone's haranguing about Vietnam as they are afraid of people with AIDS. But if Stone simplifies...
...American choreographer Garth Fagan. Poetry? Buy a book of verse by St. Lucian-born, Nobel-prizewinning poet Derek Walcott, who teaches at Boston University. Painting? New York's Asia Society is holding a show that tours the country next year featuring Asian-American visual artists who emigrated from Vietnam, Thailand and elsewhere in Asia...