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Catering to the Curious...
...rather curious name for a restaurant, and after initial surprise, passersby likely realize that the words have a different connotation in Chinese than they do in English...
TIME's article on homework [EDUCATION, Jan. 25] might be describing an alarming new epidemic. Yet the reluctance of children to do homework is not new. Moreover, there is a curious silence about television, although you did describe what happened when a mother "tried" banning television for a night. Absent any evidence to the contrary, it seems clear these children are consuming an excessive ration of TV each night. Television is bad enough in itself without pre-empting time that would be better spent on homework. To the extent that there is a homework problem, it is a failure...
...Barbra Streisand ballads ("Misty water-colored MEMMM-RIESSSS"), we have the tiny, crabbed, tear-jerking gestures of guyish intimacy: the game of catch, the hand on the shoulder, the locker room's dopey, he-really-likes-you insults. But no pats on the butt! One of the most curious things I've noticed about male weepies is that--in an effort to diffuse even the suggestion of homoeroticism?--they tend to lack sex of any sort. But who needs that old thing when you've got Dad, a ball and a mitt...
...sheer oddness of the resulting images, of skyscrapers bending at the angle where wall joins ceiling and three-deckers turned upside-down. Visual puns--like the Empire State Building, reclining suggestively across a hotel bed--sharpen the images. The very long exposures Morell used for these make for curious effects, such as the atomic radiance of the digital alarm clock in "Camera obscura image of Times Square in hotel room...