20 January 2005 By The Morning News — 20 Jan 2005 New York's currently: wondering if anyone under 40 has even heard of Fran Lebowitz Five car and truck bombs kill 26 in Baghdad. Rice says 120,000 Iraqi security forces are now ready to fight; Biden says the number is closer to 14,000. Dubai satisfies "unabashed need for attention" by scooping up world records. FEMA offers tsunami clean-up game for children, minus corpses. What they say: I'll bear it in mind. What they mean: I will do nothing about it. European Court of Justice's guide to the whims of British English. Understanding the rhetorical elements that made JFK's inaugural address great, and why no one's been able to top him since. Repository of Nabokov interviews. A year after Plimpton's successor took the helm, the Paris Review hunts again for an editor. Missing '70s New York, George Gurley goes to Mars Bar and learns how to spit on yuppies. Photo: People convince people in their neighborhood to hold up signs with Sesame Street lyrics. Do-gooder hooked on disaster scenes (and Thailand's sensual pleasures) flies to Asia with $65,000 in his carry-on. Finally! Find the cliché you've been looking for! Finally! Stan Lee gets his cut of the Spiderman profits! Exhibit of Brooklyn lives at work. Self-described "most beautiful periodic table display in the world" not bad at all. Infinity, as explained by David Hasselhoff's groin.
