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...another kind of pleasure. Carey's book begins with a quote from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Here's a story with another monster who strode into the world. But in a universe where so much is false, why should poetry, or any art, be required to stand on terra firma? All the same, there's no mistaking one fact. My Life as a Fake is the real thing. --By Richard Lacayo
...those inclined toward terra firma, golf is an attractive option at the renowned Fontarrabie club, located 20 minutes south of Biarritz. (Reservations can be made at americangolfschool.com. The wooded course with exceptionally fast sloping greens is home to Basque golf great Jose Maria Olazabal. Explains Mike Magher, a New Jersey native who runs the American Golf School in Biarritz: "If you play here, you will understand why Olazabal won the Masters twice...
...four of my pilot friends were qualified for night and bad-weather flights. Like J.F.K. Jr., too many small-craft pilots don't fly often enough to stay sharp, or they take off, bad weather or not, because plans were made and time is short. Give me terra firma any time, even with traffic delays. RONALD ROTTSCHAFER Psychologist Oak Brook...
...TONS OF FUN Reaching the Dubare Elephant Camp is almost a safari in itself. You have to traverse a muddy, turbulent river in a questionably sound boat. But once on terra firma, the trauma of the crossing becomes worthwhile. The camp, a settlement of about 30 tribal families, was once engaged in the capture and breaking of wild elephants. Today the residents breed and train the ones they already have, and put on shows for tourists. Sounds pretty tame, but the camp's denizens love to point to a rogue jumbo, tethered with heavy chains nearby, and recount the harrowing...
Astaire danced on clouds, descending to earth occasionally to sweep a lucky woman into his arms; Kelly was grounded, seemingly welded to terra firma, and when he held a woman, she felt the imprint for days. Cyd Charisse, who danced with Kelly in "Singin? in the Rain" and, the next year, with Astaire in "The Band Wagon," says her husband always knew which dancer she?d been working with. "If I didn?t have a mark, it was Fred Astaire. And if I was black and blue, it was Gene Kelly." Not to say that both men didn?t work...