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...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
Dmitry Peskov, 39, is a distinctly Russian press secretary. A polyglot former foreign ministry worker with a blond bristle of a moustache, he spent much of his career working in the Russian Embassy in Turkey. In his Kremlin office, he sat in an oversize armchair next to mine and smoked Marlboro Reds. In all, he came off as far more informal and direct than a Western counterpart would be. He spoke for over an hour, interrupting the conversation only for an occasional hacking cough or to answer calls as they came in, every few minutes, on his new iPhone. With...