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...frequent target, Gaxiola launches pot shots, often witty ones, just as often literal, paint-ball ones, at the money grubbing art world. The commodification of art sickens and provokes Gaxiola, who rebutts Warhol's statement, "Business art is a much better thing to be making than art," with the ardent, "Art is a religion, not a business." More stunningly, the Maestro does not sell his paintings, preferring the freedom to do what he wants when he wants to the lure of the greenback...
Seven years ago, when administrators originally contemplated randomizing the housing lottery, they were concerned about disproportionate numbers of athletes and prep school graduates living in some houses. In deference to students' ardent support for choice, Jewett adopted non-ordered choice as a compromise that would help diversify the houses...
...scurry to a local store for extra table linen. The elegant meal of Chilean sea bass and white wine (except for Katzenberg, who sipped his usual Diet Coke) at the home of the most successful filmmaker in history had to impress Samsung's reclusive chairman Lee Kun Hee, an ardent movie fan with a private library of some 6,000 titles...
...1940s the Vanguard was a launching pad for black folk singers like Leadbelly, Josh White and Harry Belafonte. Pete Seeger arrived with the Weavers in 1949. That year Gordon married a woman who was an ardent jazz fan, and by the end of the '50s the Vanguard had become the world's premier showcase for modern jazz at the highest level. Gordon had a genius for discovering talent very early, recalls his 72-year-old widow Lorraine, who has run the club since he died in 1989. "That's why people like Wynton Marsalis still come back every year...
...disturbed by the acceptance of Mr. Limbaugh, not because of his views or his ardent partisanship, or even his framing of facts to suit his agenda. Such is the norm everywhere, from Sunday morning talk shows to the floor of the House. Limbaugh is dangerous is in affirmations of a silent conspiracy to undermine the well-being of America by liberal-elites. These "left-wing counterculturists" are supposedly well-educated professionals who have infiltrated the media, government and academia. Limbaugh has yet to explain the scope of their conspiracy, but in recent weeks he has held them responsible...