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...duplication in Munich of Frank Lloyd Wright's landmark gallery, lasts about 15 minutes and should keep all customers satisfied, as Salinger and the Consultant briefly team up to blast their way out. It makes fine use of Wright's spiraling strip, lacking only a climactic getaway via motorcycle, wheelchair or roller skates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The International: The Banker As Bad Guy | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

...that didn’t speak and wouldn’t talk in plain language.” An albino Social Service worker, literally invisible to the rest of society, appears to him in times of desperation. With a voice of many whispering sounds, bearing gifts such as a wheelchair and flowers, the albino serves the role of a not-so-subtle angel. Phillips’ conceit to render a mentally handicapped boy in a Christ-like light plumbs, anemically, into the same well as Faulkner’s Benjy. What separates Benjy from Termite is that Termite?...

Author: By Rebecca A. Schuetz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Sound and Fury, Signifying Nothing | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

Travelocity for the Disabled. Craig Grimes, who has traveled through Spain, Nicaragua and several other destinations in a wheelchair, has created a new website called Accessible Travel, an online info and booking site devoted to helping his fellow handicapped globe-trotters. Launching on Feb. 19, the site will include information on accessible hotels in San Francisco and eight European cities - including London, Paris and Prague - and will expand over the next few months to include New York City, Miami, Chicago, Boston, L.A., Scandinavia and New Zealand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion Week's Couture Tea Cakes and Other Travel News | 2/9/2009 | See Source »

...boxes by-and one can only wonder what was in them that required the personal attention of-results in pulled back muscle of • resemblance of to Dr. Strangelove (or Bond villain Blofeld, or Mr. Potter in It's a Wonderful Life) is evoked by farewell appearance in wheelchair of • unhappiness of at Bush's failure to pardon Libby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paul Slansky's Weekly Index of the News | 1/23/2009 | See Source »

...threatening daredevilry. There are no lions, but at times, it's been easy to see the parallels between those who watch "Big Air" skateboarding and motocross and the bloodthirsty crowds at the Coliseum of Ancient Rome. At the 2003 summer games, one motocross rider left the competition in a wheelchair after crashing; another rider attempting a trick called the "Sterilizer" had an accident that sent him into convulsions in front of the crowd. In 2007, a skateboarder attempting a massive jump fell five stories to a wooden ramp and ended up in the hospital with a bleeding liver, bruised lung...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The X Games | 1/22/2009 | See Source »

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