Word: bedrooms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there are novelty seekers whose work resembles sculpture more than furniture. Leading them is Vladimir Kagan, 55, many of whose sofas, desks, chairs and bedroom furnishings are custom-made with Plexiglas, marble, bronze, leather, lacquer or textiles. Kagan's work lacks the devout simplicity of pure crafts manship and often looks as though it had been swiped from the set of Fellini's La Dolce Vita...
...uncles went here, his brother is in the Class of 1984, and also lives in Adams House. He started wearing a Harvard tie in November of his senior year in high school in hopes of getting in early action. (He did.) On the wall of his intensely messy bedroom are three school pennants, one each from Smith, Wellesley, and Pine Manor...
...incensed that I had been passed over by the teacher who selected members of the National Honor Society. Despite my dubious claim to the book. I enjoyed some of the essays that it contained, listed its receipt on my Harvard application, and placed the volume conspicuously on my bedroom book shelf from which it has not since strayed. In truth, I had forgotten about the book until an updated version appeared in the mail several weeks ago, just as I was looking for an excuse to feel nostalgic...
...this week. Indeed, the pomp has been designed to match the circumstances of the President's first visit overseas since taking office. There will be a meeting with other Western leaders at Versailles, with a formal dinner in the fabled Hall of Mirrors and a king's bedroom for Reagan in the Grand Trianon. Then on to Rome to meet the Pope, as well as Italy's President and Prime Minister. In Britain the old celluloid trouper will canter with the Queen through Windsor Great Park before becoming the first U.S. President ever to address members...
...fraternal bogeyman was also a small festival of phobias. "My biggest fear was a clown doll," he says. "Also the tree I could see outside my room. Also anything that might be under the bed or in the closet. Also Dragnet on TV. Also a crack in the bedroom wall-I thought ghosts might come from it." For Spielberg, film making has been a profitable form of psychotherapy: those boyhood fears form the spine of the Poltergeist plot...