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...seven nights a week.” No more than 20 feet wide, Toad is all business. There’s a bar, some seats, a small stage and alcohol. The Improper Bostonian named it one of Boston’s Best in 2000, writing “a honeycomb hideout for the hipster and those in the know...
...mousaka that tastes like the rubber Parthenon you picked up for the folks back home. What next? Get out, out of the tourist rat-runs and into Psirri and Votanikos. There lie the liveliest new quarters of old Athens. Once home to the country's best craftsmen, Psirri, a honeycomb of one-room workshops, barbershops, tobacconists and tanneries, has been revamped and gentrified, gracefully. Humble huts are now trendy ouzerí and cafés. Warehouses have become fashionable nightclubs. Neoclassical buildings with gateways on to verdant courtyards have been converted to stylish galleries and quaint tavernas. That uneasy coexistence...
...chance to swim in one of the less greasy stretches. Or better still, escape the day-trip detritus altogether and arrange a few days on a luxury live-aboard junk complete with kayaks on which to paddle through the maze of inlets, mangrove lagoons and caves that honeycomb the shoreline. Try Huong Hai Tourism Co. in the bayside town of Bai Chay, tel: (84-33) 845-042, which operates several junks at $125 a person per day, including food, park fees and insurance. For kayaking, call Trails of Indochina in Hanoi at (84-88) 441-005, or Thailand-based SeaCanoe...
...accident, and uneasily trying to raise a daughter about the same age as the murder victim. And Wilson's descriptions often achieve epigrammatic power. Here is Felsen visiting bombed-out Berlin near the end of the war: "Everybody was living underground. The city had been turned upside-down--a honeycomb below, a catacomb above." A Small Death in Lisbon is so carefully textured and so packed with grace notes that its dramatic conclusion seems as much interruption as resolution...
...early '80s, though, telescope designers were leaping all over the place. University of Arizona astronomer Roger Angel's solution to the sagging-glass problem was to cast huge mirrors that are mostly hollow, with a honeycomb-like structure inside to guarantee stiffness. University of California at Santa Cruz astronomer Jerry Nelson opted instead to create a mirror not from a single huge slab of glass but from 36 smaller sheets that would, under a computer's control, act as one. And in Europe, design teams came up with yet another idea, the exact opposite of Angel's: instead of making...