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Thomas Meehan is sipping coffee by the rooftop pool of the tony Peninsula Hotel in Beverly Hills. From the ankles up, he's obviously a visitor from the Northeast, swathed in a tweed jacket despite the sunny skies and warm temperature. But on his feet is a dash of West Coast: a brand-new pair of brown suede New Balance sneakers. "Mel got me these," he explains. "He said I looked too much like a New Yorker in my black dress shoes." The munificent Mel is Mel Brooks, and the bond between Meehan and Brooks has been that much stronger...
...Visitors to the penthouse at the Holyoke Center today will no longer find the elegant dining room designed for Harvard’s most lavish events, but instead a number of sun-bathed offices with the best views in Cambridge. The only traces to remind a visitor that this floor was the setting of one of the great tragedies of modern art are found in the Harvard chairs that decorate the offices. Though typical across the University, these particular chairs are distinguished by rubber bumpers affixed to their backs...
...catches "the unexpected view of something everyone in the world has seen a thousand times." In The Orphan, Alice muses that Bangkok is "like a dream of Los Angeles," which at the same time "reminds her of the Mexican Day of the Dead." The loose anarchy of every visitor's first experience of Bangkok mirrors the emotional chaos engulfing her characters. When the narrator of Lucky Girls, who has lived in India for five years, is confronted by the scornful children of her lover's wife, she is left feeling "conspicuously white," highlighting the unbridgeable divide of culture and color...
Whether you're new in town or a frequent visitor on business, there's no need to eat meals for one or to spend your downtime surfing satellite TV. Get creative about meeting new people at one of these highly social events...
Whether you're new in town or a frequent visitor on business, there's no need to eat meals for one or spend your downtime surfing satellite TV. Get creative about meeting new people at one of these highly social events: In Tokyo, the A.R.T. Exhibition Space, tel: (81-3) 3460 0680, hosts a hopping monthly soirée that attracts an international crowd of creative types such as dancers, architects and writers. Dates vary - to find out when the next gathering takes place, e-mail jw@arttokyo.org. Across the Pacific in San Francisco, Urban Diversions...