Word: armchair
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...stairs to the museum's public gallery; crisscross Sydney to poke through storerooms; mount ladders to fetch preserving jars from high shelves; lie on floors to photograph specimens too fragile to be moved more than a meter from their cases. The sumptuous result, Museum (Cambridge University Press), provides the armchair-dwelling naturalist with a lift, a key to the storerooms, and a magnifying lens...
...five-star hotel's café in Shanghai, Zeng gazes at the other patrons. Next to him, a man in red silk pajamas leans over to slurp coffee from a dainty cup resting on the table. Nearby, a prostitute in a leopard-print minidress has arranged herself in an armchair, presumably waiting for a customer. "People are so confused and crazy now," Zeng says. "It's impossible for my art not to reflect that...
Sinking into a plush armchair, Mounir Khélifa glances around the lobby of a luxury Tunis hotel and chuckles at the transformation he has seen in his lifetime. "Imagine: I come from a small village," says Khélifa, whose father raised 15 children on the proceeds of his olive grove, and sent all 10 sons to school. Khélifa went on to earn a Ph.D. in literature at Yale, and at 55, teaches the poetry of Wordsworth and Milton at Manouba University in Tunis. Khélifa may sound extraordinary. But in Tunisia, he says, "mine...
...their chops.It’s a Friday evening in a Winthrop common room, and HCSUCS’s first self-produced show for the school year is gearing up. The performers are mostly sitting on their hands in the front of the room, stage left. Every poshly-upholstered armchair in the room is full.“Stand-up is the most terrifying thing ever. It’s like slaying a dragon,” says Nelson T. Greaves ’10, a recent initiate into HCSUCS. “But you also want that dragon...
...Sfera long black diamond earrings ($37,000; bottegaveneta.com 6 Dior Christal 33-mm watch ($13,995; eluxury.com 7 Bally Cande velvet heel with grosgrain detail ($550; bally.com 8 Roger Vivier Manchette TV enamel cuff with gold buckle details ($350; 212-861-5371) 9 Laura Kirar Collection for Baker Vienna armchair ($1,680; bakerfurniture.com