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...Hanssen Pigott's craft reaches back to the Chinese courts of a millennium ago, her sensibility remains modern. No matter how exquisite, form follows function, and in the course of filling the show, the curator has left many a kitchen cupboard bare. Until recently, a prized bowl owned by Hanssen Pigott's sister was used daily for rhubarb. "The usefulness of her pots is very important to her," explains Smith, "and even the works in the still life groups today could be used if people wished to do so; but people tend not to want to use a cup that...
...paradise free of the stresses and neuroses of what was coming to be known as "modern civilization." While other artists, including the German painter Walter Spies and the Dutchman Rudolf Bonnet, were busily creating the myth of the Island of the Gods, concentrating on the exotic beauty of its bare-breasted maidens and graceful adolescent boys, Covarrubias delved deeper, following his anthropological research into the soul of Bali...
...cruel paradox of Hollywood actors is that they work in a fickle, money-obsessed industry in which reputations rise and fall overnight, yet success in the business comes from being sensitive, vulnerable and laying one's self bare before the camera. The resulting meltdowns-from Marilyn Monroe's to Robert Downey Jr.'s-are legendary and have created a booming aftermarket in therapists and therapies designed to help actors maintain peak performance in the face of depression, anxiety, stage fright, creative blocks, narcissistic disorders, substance abuse and all the other ills their profession is heir to. In the 1970s, actors...
...happen, the bigger the cuts you have to make. While eliminating a daily latte will do a bit of good, you'll do better to focus on the dramatic. Do you really need that third car, for example? What if you cut back to basic cable or a bare-bones cell-phone plan, or (if you can't do that) got rid of your landline entirely? Perhaps this summer you could vacation at home instead of spending $2,000 for a week at the beach, or trade two weeks for a seven-day getaway...
...Naik, who live in the windowless space with their daughter Puja, 3, and a tiny new baby called Liza. The Naiks welcomed them, offering them the only seat in the unit--on the double bed that took up almost the entire room. The space was lit by a single bare lightbulb. Through an interpreter, the Naiks patiently answered all the Gateses' questions...