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Sheila Kennedy, Kennedy & Violich; professor, Harvard School of Design. Minicameras are fixed to each desk, which have wheels to simplify "crossing the aisle." Skylights are replaced with a translucent screen showing the caucuses in the hallways outside. World events are projected onto scrims in the gallery...
...allegedly tortured him has just begun. One officer, 25-year-old Justin Volpe, was arrested and charged with aggravated sexual abuse and first-degree sexual assault; another, 31-year-old Charles Schwarz, was indicted; and 12 other officers from the 70th Precinct were either transferred, suspended or demoted to desk duty. Both the Brooklyn district attorney's office and the U.S. Attorney's office are investigating the incident, and more arrests are expected. New York City police commissioner Howard Safir called it a "horrific crime" and pointed out that it was a police officer who was present who came forward...
...know at least one real, fundamental difference between the races: white hosts of late-night television talk shows sit behind a desk; black hosts of late-night television talk shows don't sit behind a desk. This truth was demonstrated last week by the debuts of two new syndicated entrants into the late-night wars, Vibe and The Keenen Ivory Wayans Show...
...producers, stars stand-up comedian Chris Spencer; Keenen is fronted by the creator of the sketch-comedy show In Living Color. Both hosts are black; both sit on an easy chair with a coffee table in front of them when they interview guests. Meanwhile, David Letterman has a desk. Jay Leno has a desk. Conan O'Brien has a desk. All three are white. With its monologue, its band, its celebrity entrances, the late-night show is highly ritualized, so this variation in iconography is surely significant. What accounts...
...broadcast phenomenon, bringing new viewers--young, lots of them black--to late night for the first time. Hall respected many of the genre's conventions, but his ethnicity, effusive personality and mix of guests broke with tradition. Also, Hall didn't use a desk. Curled up in his easy chair, he was loose and open and schmoozerific. Since his show was canceled in 1994, though, no one has served his audience, and now the producers of Vibe and Keenen hope to re-create Hall's success by using the same formula. Says Spencer: "We can do a show that...