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...Sydney at 18 to join the merchant marine, the maverick Australian worked on a kibbutz in Israel and spruiked Chinese medicines in Thailand before falling in love with Hong Kong, its energy and women. There a freewheeling new cinema was taking off and, faster than you can say Chungking Express, the self-trained Doyle found himself at its center. The journey took him to Hollywood, where he added color to Gus Van Sant's 1998 remake of Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. And now Phillip Noyce's Rabbit-Proof Fence, his first Australian foray. "Yes, I'm from this place...
...general linguistic distance would be something like Beowulf, recently translated by Seamus Heaney, but the very comparison also points up the difference. The Tale of Genji depicts no guttural warriors and marauding dragons, but only the eternity of desire and the fading of youth. When characters wish to express their deepest thoughts, they exchange poems, paying consummate attention to every detail of presentation: calligraphy, color of paper and ink. Once we understand how someone could fall in or out of love because of another person's handwriting (or singing or dancing), we are all set for the long, slow delights...
...only way to get around the Thai capital, which straddles both the Chao Phraya River and a tangled network of klongs, or canals. Even though many of the old waterways have been paved over, most of the city's major attractions can be reached by boat. The Chao Phraya Express serves the river like a public bus, stopping at selected piers, like Tha Tien (for the Grand Palace,Wat Po and Wat Arun). The ubiquitous water taxis, called longtails, ply the places in between...
...phallic silhouette of Wat Arun. At $8 for a glass of wine and another $11 for the cruise, it is one of the more expensive bars in Bangkok, but the ambience is unparalleled. To catch the Manohra, hop on the Marriott's free ferry from the Chao Phraya Express stop at Taksin Bridge. Call (66-2) 476-0022, extension 1416, for reservations...
Tremitiere said the resource center provides a space for students to come in and “talk about sexuality and express themselves...