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...QUENTIN CRISP and Donald Carroll had lived in the 14th century, they might have practiced alchemy. As 20th century analysts of human personality, they remain as far from refining the perfect drop of behavioral wisdom as medieval alchemists were from producing gold. To them, possessing style is a lot like belonging to a finals club: After fussing and fiddling with your personality and habits, you are somehow elevated to a new position in life. What Crisp and Carroll try to demonstrate is a method for turning style into substance. Can they really hope to succeed in proving that black...
IGNORING THE LARGER and more interesting questions, and failing to recognize or denying the black-is-white "style-is-substance" proposition, Crisp and Carroll theorize that the way to become a stylist is to "be yourself, but on purpose." Protect the sacred well-spring of your uniqueness, so to speak. Not only protect but trumpet forth to the world "all your peculiarly unique characteristics; develop and attract all possible attention to yourself, as a distinct and singular persona." Not only will you be able to acquire style this way, you will be able to acquire it easily in 13 lessons...
...timers know better: they pack up their ribbons and memories with quiet resignation. Who could forget "The Great Wilno," a leather-clad stuntman who in 1929 was shot out of a cannon over the heads of startled spectators. Or the drenching downpours of 1939, or the clear, crisp days that came to be known as "Leahy's Luck." Or even Cheetah the chimp, who ate hot dogs, swilled soda and adjusted her sunglasses in 1968. Says Vivian Husted, 75, a handsome, white-haired woman from neighboring Oxford who has been showing her sheep for over 35 years, "I wouldn...
...second half was much like the end of the first, with Harvard dominating and outhustling the Elis. Captain Maureen Finn maneuvered the ball through the midfield to put Harvard on the attack while Kate Martin's crisp passing kept it there...
...than $10 million on a market that has often proved treacherous for TV: cul ture and fine arts. In the first seven days, viewers were almost buried under good shows, or, at the very least, good intentions. Shakespeare, Beethoven and Napoleon were among the big names; Calamity Jane, Quentin Crisp and an odd English botanist named David Bellamy were among the smaller ones. Not always successful, CBS-C's first week was nonetheless al ways impressive...