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...wear can turn anyone into a Spanish enchantress. "She's very spirited and loves to move," says Ritts. "I took her picture out in the desert. I told her to take off running and that's when she felt most at home. She wants to get out of the gate." Not unlike a lot of other Europeans of her generation...
...happened, I only stayed for a couple of party-filled weeks (actually, it was one continuous party, interrupted by the occasional be-in in Golden Gate Park), crashing with people I had just met. But I fell in love--with brightly colored gingerbread houses, staggering vistas and a robin's egg-blue sky that licked the bay and gave off a diaphanous light unlike anything I'd ever seen in the bricked-in East. I promised myself that someday I would return for good...
...usual, the Academy Awards weekend is chock-a-block with social gatherings - the more exclusive the bash, the hipper it is. Pretty much anyone, including gate crashers, can get into the official Governors' Ball. Saying that you are going there is like boasting to folks attending a rock concert that you have all-access passes to the parking lot. Unless you're a winner, milling around the Governors' Ball is a rather sad admission that you didn't get invited to any of the really tony parties. In fact, jaded insiders who encounter one another at this bash usually roll...
...days, four games. It is how the game was meant to be played, back before players' unions and owners' concerns over gate receipts made the double-header an endangered species, at least on the major league level...
...serve as narrative evidence. One such argument consists of a demand for a reevaluation of Van Vechten's place within American literary history. Van Vechten, whose literary reputation came under fire during his own time (it has since suffered an even worse fate--oblivion), was a white writer, literary gate-keeper and a "dedicated and serious patron of black art and letters." He spent much of his time frequenting Harlem's famous cabarets and hosting legendary parties where struggling black artists could establish contacts with New York's influential whites. Van Vechten is credited with directly assisting in the publication...