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...group has broken out into pop consciousness with their omnipresent single “Don’t Cha,” which features an intro by Busta Rhymes (which he fumbles, like his Harvard concert appearance last year) and Atlanta legend Cee-Lo’s sensual production...
...some of whom greet me with an exuberant “Hi, Maggie” on the streets of Cambridge—was worth far more than sticking hardnosed to all the plans. Maybe my room was used more enthusiastically for a group performance of “The Cha Cha Slide” than any MMM activity I had spent hours planning but I could hardly hold that against them. These were my kids...
Modernist furniture is another matter entirely: the stripped-down, functional aesthetic is alive and well. Particularly when it comes to chairs, the charms of rococo revivalism and campy cha-cha shapes tend to pall quickly. Enzo Mari's lithe Tonietta chair is subtle as can be. What could have been another exercise in thoughtless angularity is redeemed by the slight, supple art nouveau curvature of the aluminum legs and the natural give of the leather seat and back...
...Plates of cheese, bread and sliced meats came at regular intervals, as did the 35-year-old brandy. (A vintage that so captivated me, I felt moved to document it with my camera.) A former Russian army captain from Moscow joined us after a time for a round of "cha-cha," as Georgian vodka is known. At 130 proof, the homemade brew clears the sinuses. (I have a picture of this bottle as well.) We talked about oil prices, the 27 million Russians that died in the Second World War and the dual tragedies of the 9/11 attacks...
Nyerere's successor is Ali Hassan Mwinyi, 60, former President of Zanzibar, a semiautonomous island off the Tanzanian coast.[*] Mwinyi was nominated to succeed Nyerere last September by the national executive committee of Tanzania's sole political party, the Chama Cha Mapinduzi, or Revolutionary Party. He will run unopposed in popular elections scheduled for this week. Meanwhile, in other parts of Africa, voters in the Ivory Coast (pop. 10 million) are expected this week to endorse 80-year-old Flix Houphout-Boigny's uncontested bid for a sixth five-year term as President. In Liberia (pop. 2 million...