Word: armchairs
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...this is not the office of Vanity Fair. Perhaps the only place where such a story conference could occur is at Soldier of Fortune, the macho magazine for adventurers (armchair and otherwise). The Colonel is Robert K. Brown, 52, a.k.a. "Uncle Bob," the onetime Green Beret who started the magazine in 1975 and owns it lock, stock and carbine barrel. Soldier of Fortune is a direct reflection of its creator: blunt, individualistic, muscularly anti-Communist. As Brown celebrates Soldier of Fortune's tenth anniversary this month, he makes no apology for the combative style--either his or the magazine...
...July 4, 1985, Richard Nixon sits in a low-back armchair, his legs crossed on an ottoman, his hands contributing to his account of the past 40 years of atomic diplomacy by drawing circles in the air, playing an absent piano, shooing away a wrong idea, coming together in an arch or making points in precise order: one, two, three, four. It is shortly after 8 a.m. Two mornings back to back he has been discussing the effects of Hiroshima on the world and on the presidency in his office in a federal building in downtown Manhattan. The building...
...once infernal and frozen, violent and funereal, Dido, Queen of Carthage is as fantastic as it is eerie. Audiences leave the theatre feeling slightly voyeuristic, having been privy to the raw and tortured ids of the desperate characters. Dido turns viewers into armchair pyromaniacs, riveted to the literal and psychological fires that consume the stage for an unrelenting two hours. We leave the blackened stage much as Aeneas must have left the charred ruins of Troy: tortured and haunted, with a taste of ashes in our mouths...
...this "brutality of fact" that linked their work. But Bacon clearly wins in the cruelty stakes, especially in his nudes. His Lying Figure (1969) is an upside-down mound of desiccating flesh with a needle in its arm. On the facing wall, Picasso's Large Nude in a Red Armchair (1929), with head back and legs daintily crossed, looks benignly bourgeois by comparison...
...scientist, and Larry set out to find someone with complimentary academic interests,” Hyman said in an interview in his tidy office last November, reclining in an armchair with one foot on the glass table in front of him, his cell phone on one hip and a PDA on the other. Pictures of his three children decorate his bookshelf...