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...more tolerant of the music I loved than I am of the music they love. Then I put aside doubt and snarl: because mine?s better! And if I remind myself that songs of the 60s are as distant from today?s kids as songs of the teens and 20s were to me... well, I have an answer for that, too. I liked those old songs! It?s simple courtesy for them to give a tolerant listen to the music of my youth. They might even learn to like...
...portraits simply drip glamour - the wealthy and celebrated of the day posed for Tamara de Lempicka, and her striking oils capture their red lipstick, perfect nails and skin as glossy as their satin dresses. Some art authorities dismiss De Lempicka (1898-1980), a Polish-Russian painter who flourished in '20s and '30s Paris, as a purveyor of kitsch, and leave her out of their histories of 20th century art. Others see her as an icon whose work captured the spirit of the Art Deco age. Not surprisingly, many of her fans today are from the glamour set: present-day collectors...
...think the Harvard study is deeply flawed because it assumes that the ’20s, the ’30s, the ’40s, the ’50s, the ’60s, the ’70s, the ’80s, the ’90s and the 21st century are all the same, and they’re not,” he said...
...knowledge and training was always to peak at Olympics time; now, as she contemplates life away from competition, the lessons she learns from yoga, for instance, are incorporated into her everyday existence. While age has brought her calm, all but removing the fear of failure that pervaded her 20s, it has made Kendall's body more vulnerable: now she needs to work harder at keeping muscles and joints in tune. "If I have something niggling me, I'm very sensitive to it and find it hard to ignore," she says. "Things flare up quicker and it takes longer to recover...
...these days is a no man's land for new musicals, and a museum, a mausoleum, for old ones. But three times a year, in a Moorish castle on 55th Street, you can hear its ancient heart ticking merrily, as if it were young, and the decades were the 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, and the theaters nearby were stocked with musicals you couldn't wait...