Word: cohn
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With Andy's help, the hip crowd of the '70s became just a cocaine-addled update on the old cafe society. The entourage admitted through the velvet rope at Studio 54 would be Liza and Halston and Bianca, and so on down to -- why not? -- Roy Cohn, the aide-de-camp of Senator Joe McCarthy and arguably Satan's first lieutenant. The meaning of hip was reconfigured to embrace the greed and swank and snobbery it used to reject. It would be summed up later in a song by Billy Joel...
...York Review of Books, the New Republic and the current home of his column, New York Newsday, Kempton's book calls forth a cavalcade of heroes and scoundrels of the past 50 years and more -- among them Benito Mussolini, F.D.R., Richard Nixon, Bessie Smith, Karl Marx, Goya, Roy Cohn, Cassius Clay and one Stella Valenza, a housewife on trial for "hiring three mechanics to rid her of her husband, Felice." To Kempton, the insignificant deserves as much attention as the momentous; he gives the auctioning of Marilyn Monroe's address book the same careful scrutiny as the postcommunism paralysis...
...accident of rolodexes," says Lukefahr the invitation list of original founders at Hickory Hill. "Everybody can't be included. We tried to include as many bleeders as possible." Half of the liberal who were invited declined. "They just wanted us to give them some legitimacy," explains Jonathan S. Cohn '91, a former Crimson president and writer for the American Prospect. And two prominent liberals who signed the Third Millennium declaration, Rob Nelson and Jon Cowan of Lead or Leave, later repudiated any affiliation with the group...
...Cohn encourages students to participate in the program, because she says she sees a big difference between appreciating an original and a reproduction. She says that the rental program will "get [students] used to living with original art. Everyone should love works in the original, not just in reproductions...
...addition to benefitting the students, the program provides an opportunity for the Museum to purchase new contemporary works. "We hope to ultimately graduate some [prints] into the permanent collection. A bargain today may someday become very valuable," says Cohn. So, ten or twenty years from now when you visit the Museum, something that hung in your dorm room may be on display to the public...