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Skeletons on the Zahara (Little, Brown; 353 pages) begins in 1815 when Riley, on his way back from a routine trading voyage--the proverbial three-hour tour--got lost near the Canary Islands and ran aground in what is now southern Morocco. He and his crew suffered horrifying extremes of exposure, hunger and thirst (King is especially good on the gruesome physiology of dehydration) and were eventually taken as slaves by the Bou Sbaa, a tribe of nomadic Arabs who scratched out a perilous living in the Sahara, trading and feuding and drinking surprising amounts of camel urine. Seen through...
...certainly enjoyed my Sunday study break, but unless you are prepared to spend the rest of the day lolling around in a post-sugar-high stupor, the Boston Chocolate Tour is not the weekend activity for you. This three-hour, three-stop circuit of downtown Boston may or may not have been a step toward chocolate connoisseurship, but it was definitely a step towards Dante’s Third Circle of Hell, reserved for the gluttonous. And as with other exercises in gluttony, the finer details—actual steeped tea as opposed to tea bags, eating leisurely at each...
Harvard players didn’t get much sleep Saturday night in Seattle, as they jumped to an early lead but lost after a fatiguing, three-hour battle against the Huskies...
WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO DIRECT YOUR OWN FILM? Pretty soon, probably the fall. The script is done. Anthony Minghella and Martin Scorsese are going to produce it, and they've said when they see my first three-hour cut, they're gonna gladly cut it down to a 10-minute short...
Super Bowl. It is the Great American Time Out, a three-hour pause on a Sunday afternoon in January that is--as sheer, unadorned spectacle--an interval unique. For 70 million Americans, life compresses to the diagonally measured size of a cathode ray tube. Work goes undone, play ceases too; telephones stop ringing, romance is delayed and, in all the land, there is just one traffic jam worthy of the title--on highways leading to the Super Bowl site. If it is not literally McLuhan's global village, the Super Bowl certainly is the national town, and all the inhabitants...