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...place. To be sure, Annie is a part-time smuggler and full-time freebooter. But he is more observer--mainly of himself--than active participant in the life around him. Two-thirds of the book drifts by before he gets into action--a typhoon, a hijacking at sea. David Thomson, the film historian and occasional novelist, edited the manuscript and supplies (from Cammell's notes) a last chapter, in which Annie finally beds a piratical dragon lady after whom he has long lusted. Their encounter, which involves foreign objects and upturned bums, may strike some readers as less than delectable...
...Thomson's style in that chapter doesn't quite match that of the rest of the book. But his afterword about the novel's creation is fascinating. The idea for the work, he says, originated with Brando. But it was Cammell--a rather louche, not untalented fellow (he wrote and co-directed the cultishly admired Mick Jagger movie Performance in 1970)--who did all the heavy lifting on both treatment and novel. Thomson says Brando chatted with Cammell about the story and scratched a few notes in the margins of the evolving manuscript. That is the not entirely surprising...
...local suq?all courtesy of a headset you can try on at a travel agent. "They're based on real-life smells?including mummies?and then exaggerated to become recognizable," says Jason Cremins of the U.K.-based Remote Media, which developed the technology. Beginning in January, European tour operator Thomson took the $28,000 headset around four British cities to help sell vacations in Egypt. Wherever the gadget was trialed, bookings increased ?by up to 32% in one store. "People find it easier to imagine themselves on a holiday the more they know and see about a destination," says Douglas...
...local suq - all courtesy of a headset you can try on at a travel agent. "They're based on real-life smells - including mummies - and then exaggerated to become recognizable," says Jason Cremins of the U.K.-based Remote Media, which developed the technology. Beginning in January, European tour operator Thomson took the $28,000 headset around four British cities to help sell vacations in Egypt. Wherever the gadget was trialed, bookings increased - by up to 32% in one store. "People find it easier to imagine themselves on a holiday the more they know and see about a destination," says Douglas...
...Thomson Professor of Government James E. Alt, who studies British politics, said that the British government had “some success” in its recent health care reforms, particularly in its push to reduce hospital waiting lists. But he also acknowledged—as did the reports Berwick cited—that Britain’s health care system has several hurdles that it must still overcome...