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...style in one sentence: The Kroks call it “homeless chic,” but I just call it “pretty recently washed...
...Ching claims to have “a queer eye” for style; both are deeply interested in aesthetics. He calls their room “warm” and “sexy,” while she describes their style as “chic, minimalist, and cosmopolitan.” But, she added, “our inspiration has always been sex.” The entry hallway is a sometime-catwalk and an homage to sex and circle motifs. “We travel a lot together,” Matsui says of the pictures...
...good firms” that has a minority recruitment program and doesn’t kill arctic seals. But at the end of the day, most of us are going to be walking out of the air-conditioned office, zipping home in the chic sedan, living comfortably while others in this country struggle to put dinner on the table. I don’t care if you vote Democrat. Many of us do about as much good as most Northerners did when they waited for a civil war to threaten their way of life before demanding...
...course, America's Founding Father heroes have warts of their own. (George Washington was imperious; John Adams was a grouch; Thomas Jefferson had that affair.) But as recent biographies have made apparent, Mao was not merely ruthless but his ruthlessness is practically unmatched in history. If iconic, socialist-chic Mao once seemed cuddlier than, say, Stalin, the record now makes clear they were rivals in brutality. Both men, through murder and misrule, were responsible for tens of millions of deaths...
...thing that will probably cushion the blow of this new and permanent energy crisis is something old, with an air about it of discomfort and duty: conservation. There's nothing particularly sexy or chic about consolidating shopping trips, carpooling, turning the thermostat down in winter and up in summer, or biking to the office and back, but it does work. In the early '80s, in the midst of soaring oil prices, we doubled the average efficiency of cars, furnaces and insulation. Katrina and Rita might not have pushed us into another energy-crisis mind-set yet. With the inevitable price...