Tue, May 22, 2012

Alain de Botton on a Future Without Flying

Posted 2 years, 1 month ago

Imagine a world without flying: What would it be like if there were no planes in the sky?

In a future world without aeroplanes, children would gather at the feet of old men, and hear extraordinary tales of a mythic time when vast and complicated machines the size of several houses used to take…

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Dark Man at the Airport

Posted 2 years, 6 months ago

It was my great misfortune to be traveling from New York City to Paris just two months after 9/11.

For while my passport is American and clearly states that I was born in New York, there is no getting around the fact that the name printed beside the photo of a dark-haired, dark-eyed, and…

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Sandland Seduction: The New Palm Springs Weekend, Two Ways

Posted 2 years, 6 months ago

In 1963, the Beach Party film dried up. Well, not literally. But for all of its faults, Palm Springs Weekend, a dopey ensemble flick about a bunch of L.A. rich kids indulging their “primitive, instinctual urges” to spend Easter Break in the SoCal desert, was a paean to the sandland escape…

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