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Dudley House: 1. The “house” for the small percentage of students who live off-campus 2. Official caretaker of the Co-op (not to be confused with the bookstore), the convocation of independent-minded students who cook their own food, share chores, smoke dope, and occasionally bathe...
...visiting Morley's last show at Australia's National Portrait Gallery in 2003, she was struck by the idea that "there must be more to Lewis than portraiture and the '60s." Until then the decade had defined him. In 1961, he had lucked upon a photographic studio above Peter Cook's bohemian club The Establishment, which supplied him with a never-ending stream of talent wanting to be made famous, from Jean Shrimpton to Michael Caine. Less known were Morley's early photojournalism or later, more personal reportage...
...Exhibit A has always been Keeler. Brought by Cook to publicize a film project, she arrived at Morley's studio less hardened and more na?ve than the photographer was expecting, and the impression rings true of the man himself. In the decades since, Morley has rarely searched for a subject, finding fascination in what is close at hand. His insular gaze could be a legacy of the war years, when he and his family were interned by the Japanese...
...writing for Italians - translating them was an afterthought. "This time it was the other way around. Bella was written for an international audience," he says, even though Italians got first crack at reading it last year. In a typically culinary metaphor, Severgnini says: "It's like when you cook a good meal for your fiancée and your friends love it." In La Bella Figura, he takes us on a 10-day whirlwind tour of the country. A purposeful but ever-playful host, he stops in Tuscany to poke fun at notions of paradise, but not without criticizing...
...After the tour, Barber helped cook one the best meals of my life. My notes are filled with superlatives: "by far the best chicken I've ever eaten"; "tomatoes so fresh and tomato-y that they taste like a pure idea of tomato, not the thing itself"; "delish corn"; "a peach poached, perfumed so beautifully it seems to be solid, liquid, gas at once." After I paid, I took the train back to Manhattan. I was still wearing Barber's clothes and was now filled with his food. I'm not sure I was "impregnated with nutrient density...