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Despite his age -- or, as he believes, at least partly because of it -- Octogenarian Harry Lipsig is perhaps the winningest liability lawyer in America, as well as the founder and head of the nation's largest personal- injury firm. Although he does not appear in court in all cases taken by his firm, Lipsig was delighted to be Exhibit A in the Chernow case, which brought out all his instinct for courtroom spectacle. "If you bore the jury, you have lost the case," says Lipsig, who just a few years ago helped win a client's lawsuit by leaping several...
...honor, to an idea of courage that requires accepting misfortune without complaint. The code is not necessarily a male code with Carver; the women (in "Careful," for example) are often more stoic than their men. In narrative style, Carver believes in saying less. He has been called the founder of the new Minimalism, or, according to Granta, Dirty Realism, whose followers include Richard Ford, Mary Robison, Jayne Anne Phillips, Tobias Wolff and Bobbie Ann Mason...
...against cliches too narrow to contain them, Hispanics may find their greatest luxury in not being hemmed in by any preconceptions at all. Consider the Los Angeles artist known as Gronk. He has impeccable Chicano credentials: born in 1954 in mostly Chicano East Los Angeles, he was a co- founder in his younger days of an ad hoc group of Latino artists who brought their art to the streets. But all of that was the forcing ground for a talent that resists ethnic labels. His paintings carry echoes of Mexican symbolism, but they also wear the signs of European expressionism...
...Fernando Sanchez's luxurious lingerie, Isabel Toledo's topstitched, balloon-shaped skirts, Angel Estrada's sexy satin bustiers all have an unmistakable flair that is setting the standard for many designers across the country. "A Latin sensibility in fashion design is apparent in nuances," says Penny Harrison, a co-founder of Hispanic Designers Inc., "in a certain flair, elegance or the use of vivid color...
Welcome to the eccentric world of recreational hoboing. The tramp from Beverly Glen is Actor Bobb Hopkins, 39, founder of the National Hobo Association. He drives a Mercedes and until recently lived near affluent Century City in Los Angeles. On the road he carries a secret credit card, which he used once to fly home for a role. Hopkins' companions are a Palm Springs horse breeder and a journalist. Across America, weekend hoboes include a Connecticut schoolmarm, a Florida minister, a Washington State college professor, even a Denver shopping center developer who hops freights to find remote fishing spots. They...