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...that instant, Sherri Belonga wakes up screaming. She sits upright in bed. Leonard Howard, her fiance, is also awake. "Leonard says to me, 'It's only a dream,' " Sherri reports. She is a 25-year-old single mother. Bianca, 9, the girl in the dream, is her only child. That night Sherri can not fall back asleep. Months later, the dream still haunts...
Themes of danger and escape, often through fantasy, are woven into the textures of Bianca's life. "Sometimes I have problems sleeping," says Bianca, a shy, sensitive and self-centered child. "Like I sweated one time. All you could see is wetness." Was she sick? "No. But then it reminds me of when that girl got bitten on Fright Night. She started turning ugly, and then it was like she was sweating. But the only movie that scared me was The Exorcist. That scared me. Her head turned all the way around, and something green just jumped...
...most extensive estate sales in history and one of the glitziest. Dealers -- British, French, German and Italian, as well as American -- swarmed to it. The event was studded with the celebrities to whom Warhol catered in his life and art, from the King and Queen of Sweden to Bianca Jagger and Dick Cavett. By week's end more than 45,000 collectors and curiosity seekers had milled through Sotheby's showrooms, 10,000 of them on a single day. For some, Warhol's vast collection was a monument to the materialism that the artist enshrined in his Campbell Soup...
...Harvard, there is no similar currency of esteem. The primary social values are the ability to party hard and generate small talk. Harvard is what the world would look like if Miss Manners and Bianca Jagger ran the universe together: the final clubs, Hasty Pudding, and Signet kanoodling together at the top and the other social organizations aping their cliquish ways down the line...
...avant-garde became hot, even chic. Bianca Jagger and Diane Keaton joined the Next Wave Producers Council, young urban professionals who had never gone near Lincoln Center flocked across the Brooklyn Bridge, and a BAM ticket became the scarcest in town. The first Next Wave Festival in 1983 featured Director Lee Breuer and Composer Bob Telson's dazzling wedding of Sophocles and soul, The Gospel at Colonus, which was later televised on PBS. The next year saw a triumphant reprise of Einstein, while last season brought Wilson's incandescent play The Golden Windows. It also brought forth a full-fledged...