Word: amsterdamã
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...this rising and falling of register is at times almost powerful enough to obscure the story. Hoffmann marries, has children, comes to love Japanese culture, and eventually becomes a professor, writing all the while. The different planes of the story—Rabbi Kook Street in Ramat Gan, Japan, Amsterdam??drift hazily into one other. When he halts the waves of meditation for more concrete narrative material, the tongue-in-cheek presentation suggests that dabbling in the realm of standard exposition is another of his little experiments. The University of Haifa, for example, is an index...
...couple weeks ago, during an interview with Majoor—the founder of the Prostitution Information Center in Amsterdam??s Red Light District—the former sex worker told me that the one reason she decided to become a full-time prostitute was simply because she wanted a dog, a constant source of companionship on the streets, and could not otherwise afford one. But that reason seemed to belie her insistence that the decision to begin a career in prostitution was one she made “as an adult...
...fields might work in areas with violent seditious guerrillas like Colombia’s FARC, but in Bolivia, aerial spraying destroys peoples’ opportunities to feed their families. Burning crops in distant Inca lands only prevents politicians from facing the real problem of demand, whether it is in Amsterdam??s dark alleys or Los Angeles’ celebrity pubs...
...hundred miles farther away, the city now seems closer than ever. Far from New York, I found myself surrounded on all fronts by the city. Freshman week was a perpetual exchange of the bizarre social currency of a New York address: “I live on 78th and Amsterdam?? for “I’m just across town on 5th.” My offering, “I’m from Hamden, Conn., just outside New Haven,” isn’t worth much on the New York social exchange. This...
...first heard it clubbing at 3 or 4 a.m. in Amsterdam??I think it’s something about linden trees. It’s not a great dance song, but Europeans dance really strangely, they kind of hop around…I think the only way they could dance like that is to take drugs...