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...that the best crossword solvers are mathematicians and musicians. (This applies especially to cryptic puzzles, a British refinement of the form that was imported to America when Stephen Sondheim created 40 or so for New York magazine in the early '70s. A few years later the cryptic became a regular feature of Harper's magazine in puzzles constructed by E.R. Galli and Richard Maltby, another Broadway lyricist. One of Maltby's songs: "Crossword Puzzle.") A pair of musicians, Indigo Girls, confide their shock and pleasure when they found themselves as an answer to a Times puzzle...
...Chicken McNuggets, rather than being merely chicken fried in a pan, are a McFrankenstein creation of various elements not utilized by the home cook," including ground chicken skin, hydrogenated oils and dimethylpolysiloxane, an antifoaming agent, and he questioned whether customers understood the risks of eating McDonald's chicken over regular chicken...
...Depression in America and the absurd opulence of the country's postwar era both inspired him. In one image, a young couple dances in a "voodoo trance" (ca. 1956), pictured; in another, a burlesque showgirl whose glorious body drips with glitter sips water backstage. Weegee's pursuit of regular people in their mundane vulnerability and well-knowns such as glamour model Bettie Page and actress Eva Gabor created a body of work that became emblematic of all New Yorkers, native and transplanted: the average, the wealthy, the hurting, the dead...
...Depression in America and the absurd opulence of the country's postwar era both inspired him. In one image, a young couple dances in a "voodoo trance" (ca. 1956); in another, a burlesque showgirl whose glorious body drips with glitter sips water backstage. Weegee's pursuit of regular people in their mundane vulnerability and well-knowns such as glamour model Bettie Page and actress Eva Gabor created a body of work that became emblematic of all New Yorkers, native and transplanted: the average, the wealthy, the hurting, the dead...
...greater Madrid. The high point of the local calendar was the traditional festival of Cristo de los Remedios in late August, when residents celebrated with fireworks, bullfights and bull running. The rest of the year, the demands of the town's residents were relatively simple: clean streets, regular garbage pickup and an early bus down Burgos Road to Madrid, where the jobs were. These days, San Sebastián de los Reyes refers to itself as Sanse - "a way of modernizing our corporate image," explains Rubén Holguera, its deputy mayor and councillor for urban development. The town...