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Raitt spends less time getting ready to go onstage than most women do before walking the dog on a weekend morning. She does her own makeup, which means she throws on some eyeliner, mascara and blush--unless she has mislaid it, as she did in Columbus; then she just runs a brush through her hair. "I'm coming from a tomboy type of position," she says. She changes into black pants that fit tight over her skinny legs and one of the 12 chiffon shirts she had tailored in emerald, salmon and aqua hues. Has she had her colors done...
...Universe, created by producer Victor Fresco, a would-be short-story writer (named Andy Richter) churns out technical manuals for a corporate behemoth and vents his creativity by imagining alternative scenarios for his work and love lives. At first blush, it sounds like just one more high-concept gimmick in a TV season full of them (as on CBS's creepy new talking-infant comedy Baby Bob). The TV fantasy sequence has been poured on like red sauce at an Olive Garden in series from Ally McBeal to Six Feet Under. But Universe proves that there is no gimmick...
...first blush, the pieces included in the exhibit—by photographers Carlin E. Wing ’02, Jean J. Ryoo ’02 and Arwen K. O’Reilly ’02, as well as sculptor Kurt D. Mueller ’02—seem to further a well-worn thesis: commercialism is both cause and symptom of a deep-seated sickness of American—or Western?—culture, one that champions quantity at the cost of quality, efficiency at the cost of beauty...
...matter how many times tearful widows accuse him of protecting the airlines, Feinberg does not blush. A lawyer with decades of experience in the messy art of compromise (Feinberg was special master for the $180 million distributed to veterans exposed to Agent Orange), he is accustomed to rage. "On Tuesday I get whacked for this or that in New Jersey. The next day it's New York. It goes with the job." But he rejects the theory that greed is a factor. "People have had a loved one wrenched from them suddenly, without warning, and we are only five months...
...matter how many times tearful widows accuse him of protecting the airlines, Feinberg does not blush. A lawyer with decades of experience in the messy art of compromise (Feinberg was special master for the $180 million distributed to veterans exposed to Agent Orange), he is accustomed to rage. "On Tuesday I get whacked for this or that in New Jersey. The next day it's New York. It goes with the job." But he rejects the theory that greed is a factor. "People have had a loved one wrenched from them suddenly, without warning, and we are only five months...