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...book guides that explore the sights, history, foods and local customs of more than a dozen destinations, including New York, San Francisco, Venice, London and Edinburgh. The beloved books have been reissued and updated for a new generation of travelers and their nostalgic parents. making the most of mickey Theme parks are often not the first choice of parents, but sometimes the lure of Disney is unavoidable. Fodor's Disneyland and Southern California with Kids offers detailed maps, descriptions of rides (including age ranges and scare factors) and lists of attractions and shows you can skip. Also useful...
...Strivers Row,” Baker describes Lionel Hampton’s band at the Savoy: “Tripping on out to the floor as the tempo built, the drum pounding atop the bass line, then the trombones circling back to the theme again and again in long, dizzying loops, working the dancers harder and harder...
...sending a text message. For example, Nationwide, the insurance and financial-services company, encourages visitors on Times Square's Reuters billboard to send in snapshots via a company website. Each afternoon it posts selected photos on the 23-story sign. Up the street, Walt Disney World advertises a new theme-park attraction. Send a text message to the number posted, and seconds later your phone buzzes with an SMS from Disney asking whether you want further promotions. For now, the advertiser knows only your number. Before too long, though, it could know your name too. Pretty cool stuff--and maybe...
...literary hoax played by antimodernists Harold Stewart and James McAuley, who posed as a dead working-class poetic "genius" - by bringing a fabricated identity to life to haunt its creator. The novel's sprawling narrative was as gin-soaked and overripe as its Kuala Lumpur setting, but Carey's theme was sobering: how can we test the merit of a literary work...
...Suffering for Society "Place Your Bets" [March 6] predicted that the movie Brokeback Mountain would win the Academy Award for Best Picture, but the Oscar went to Crash. Brokeback may have lost because of its homosexual theme, but it has a story that everyone can relate to. It is about the road not taken because it is too difficult. We fear failure, and society dictates our behavior. In Brokeback Mountain, we see two worlds: the open, exuberant, vivid natural setting, suggesting what life could be like; and the cramped, suffocating, dark domestic world inhabited by Ennis and Jack, what their...