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...theater critic Carl Van Vechten, author of the novel Nigger Heaven and prime link between downtown white New York and the Harlem Renaissance, posing in rapturously exaggerated contrapposto in 1922's Portrait of Carl Van Vechten on a red stool on a black rug on a red carpet; while in Portrait of Stieglitz, 1928, the shoe and cane (nothing else) of artist Charles Demuth enter from the left, and the gloved, ermine-cuffed hand of the preposterous New York dandy Baron de Meyer appears on the right...
Michael Eisner is happy doing things. He just has to be doing everything. In 1989, during the televised extravaganza that launched the Disney-MGM Studio theme park in Florida, Eisner noticed that a spangle from the costume of one of the 1,200 dancers had fallen on the red carpet. He waited till the cameras had passed, then darted out, picked up the spangle and put it in his tuxedo pocket. At Disney, neatness counts. So, for the chairman and ceo, does a twin obsession for the big picture and the smallest, shiniest detail...
While banning smoking from the Yard wouldn't cause any undue injustice, it would improve the quality of my life immensely. For example, I would not walk to class every morning over a carpet of the detritus smokers leave behind in the evident assumption that the Cigarette Butt Fairy is coming to pick up after them shortly. My common room would not reek of the smoke that drifts up from the courtyard where I live. I would be able to walk past the Widener steps, the doors of Sever Hall and numerous other areas which are, technically...
...political Islam? To Bill Clinton and Warren Christopher, it is one of the most dangerous forces on earth. But listen to what an Iranian housewife named Hafezeh has to say. Earlier this month, just before the sixth anniversary of the death of Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, she sat on a carpet inside his gold-domed mausoleum. Under her loosely draped chador she wore blue jeans and a bright turquoise blouse...
...small room that he has made into a home: a microwave, a tabletop refrigerator, a coffee maker, a hot plate, a vcr, a collection of 28 beer steins and an aquarium with tropical fish complement a ragged sofa with foam spilling out of the cushions and a filthy shag carpet. "I want to be left alone," says Doherty, whose back was injured in a tank accident in the Army. "When I come home from work and I've had a bad day, I watch The Lion King," he says. "It makes me cry." He has sheared his purebred Chow, Hobo...