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...Harvard treats them pretty well. Nude models are surrounded by portable heaters during their three-hour sessions, and they are allowed regular breaks to stretch and keep limber. Of the two models for "Painting with Attitude," the first was a woman in her mid 40s, the second in her 20s. The course never hired male nudes as their relative scarcity makes them too expensive...
...prejudice. "Many people haven't discovered the simple," says Johnson, 61. "Many people distrust the simple." He recounts the story of his own life--an inspiring case study in following the cheese. Trained as a medical doctor at Britain's Royal College of Surgeons, he set out in his 20s to discover the underlying reasons for illness. His findings? Bad attitudes as much as bad germs. He deemed the pen a better healing instrument than the scalpel...
...disgraceful because he was so confessional--and so untrustworthy. Perhaps no artist in history has told his viewers more about his secret life; certainly none invented more about it. It still seems pretty weird, that inventory of impotence and aggression, of bizarre terrors and fetishes. But in the '20s and '30s it was beyond mere weirdness. Dali must have enjoyed the worst relations with his father of anyone else since little Oedipus. In 1930 his parent wrote a frantic letter to Dali's friend, film director Luis Bunuel, begging him to prevent the artist's coming anywhere near...
...wrong to suppose that the curiosity about the irrational that pervaded European culture in the '20s was an offshoot of surrealism; this puts the cart before the horse. The French film director Jean Epstein put the matter succinctly when he wrote of how "a host of techniques, from psychoanalysis to micro-physics, has begun to describe a world where...reason no longer always seems right." Cinema "encourages us to think in a dreamlike way...[it] slowly but surely filters the most basic of doubts throughout society: that of questioning the value of absolutes." Dali collaborated with Bunuel...
...That character is Daru, a bank employee in his late 20s who gets smart with a senior client and loses his job. He finds comfort in an affair with his best friend's wife, a homemaker named Mumtaz with a second career as an undercover journalist. We learn early on that our primary narrator (the first person switches frequently among the main characters) has been involved in a botched robbery, and is now on trial for murder. The evidence sounds damning, although we are not told the specifics of the case until much later in the book. The story...