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...inspiration: Stephen Sprouse, surfers and the very '80s impulse to take everything???including color?to the extreme...
...mass of etched-glass ship's decanters on the handsome sideboard. In the kitchen are stacks of exquisite porcelain and a little gathering of tiny figures, each designed to hold toothpicks. "I only buy what I like to have in my home," says Ravestijn, of her house where everything???from the 18th century glass jars in the sumptuous bathroom to a sharkskin box holding fruit knives?is for sale. Ravestijn, a renowned antiques dealer for over 20 years, gave up her city shop when it became tiresome not being able to see the treasures she had collected. Now they...
...enema?' They set down guidelines. It causes minor confrontations. They're overly prepared." Says William Simon, professor of sociology at the University of Houston: "The underside of this situation is that these are interesting women. They are wondrous products of the culture of narcissism. They want the best of everything???best marriages, best careers, best children. Unfortunately, life requires that we make choices. The kind of child rearing they're going to engage in, with a great deal of child care, handing the kid back and forth, is enhancing to the father and mother, but what it means...
There was nothing soft or dreamy about Nabokov. He seems to have been an astonishingly disciplined, highly competitive, hopeless overperformer. His cousin Nicolas, a composer living in Hamburg, remembers Vladimir at 18 as tall, handsome and insufferably skillful at nearly everything???though he always smelled slightly of the ether he used to kill the specimen butterflies he caught. When Vladimir was enrolled in a liberal school expressly chosen by his father, he resented a master's suggestion that the Nabokov coachman deposit him several blocks away so he could arrive at class democratically afoot. A more galling comment, though, came...
Some of Righter's clients have tended toward fanaticism: Director William Dieterle insisted on starting the shooting for one movie on a certain date, even though it had not been cast by that time. For the most part, like many astrologers, Righter does his best to couch everything???even the unpleasant?in positive terms. "If I find a strong indication, say, that someone is going to lose his job, I say: 'You know, nothing in life is certain. This is a period of change. Your chart shows that you have some interesting new beginnings, and if I were...