Above: The open-windowed, lagoon-facing spa at GoldenEye. Generalizing about an entire country, even a small one, on the basis of a tiny sample of several days spent is, we’re told, dubious. But our eyes and ears and consciousness are never so alert and a... See more
The New York of the nineteen-eighties was, warily, a city in transition. The frightening “Taxi Driver� New York of the previous decade—steaming manholes, blackouts, riots—still hung over the town, but so did the potent downtown renaissance that ha... See more
A widespread myth holds extended imprisonment to be a modern development. In Ryan George’s wonderful “Pitch Meeting� series, on YouTube, the excitable producer character, relishing the eager screenwriter character’s ability to load a conflict with... See more
如今，伍迪·艾伦（Woody Allen）的遭遇之于九十年代，恰似奥斯卡·王尔德（Oscar Wilde）的审判之于一个世纪前：一场融合了家庭悲剧、法庭戏剧与性丑闻的公众闹剧，最终令这位当代最受推崇的喜剧作家沦为当时少数残存的所谓“体面人士”的猎物。当然，在多数方面， 伍迪的遭遇远比奥斯卡仁慈得多；尽管检察官和法官对他怒不可遏，他至少不必像奥斯卡那样，独自站在雨中的火车站台任人嘲弄。但另一方面，奥斯卡虽遭遇伪善者以道德之名施加的残酷报复，却也收获了勇敢展现的人性同情。伍迪承受的则是当代特有的丑陋——复仇心... See more
