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...nature of Boston fans, so quick to complain but equally quick to regain hope. In the same sentence, another middle-aged man in line decried Rick Pitino as the Antichrist and declared Kevin Garnett the savior of the franchise. He called Danny Ainge a “genius,” forgetting, I suppose, that almost all of Boston wanted him tarred and feathered for much of the last few seasons. Another fan lamented the deaths of Len Bias and Reggie Lewis, both seminal events in the franchise’s decline over the past two decades. Boston fans still...
Eggers, who will be giving a reading at the concert, catapulted into the ranks of hipster icons after the 2000 publication of “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius.” Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language Louis Menand called the part-memoir, part-novel the “MTV” version of “The Catcher and the Rye” in an article in The New Yorker...
...house of Saint Laurent has no time to waste. It has been hemorrhaging cash for almost a decade, eroding its fashion credibility for perhaps longer and awaiting, if not salvation, the kind of high-end genius that was there at the creation of the Paris couturier in 1961 and that endured for four decades...
...hopped over to Ralph Lauren as design director of women's accessories. There, "much as I loved sittings," Wang says, "creating made me feel so good. And it was just genius...
Ackroyd's particular genius here lies in showing how the lines connecting us to the past still carry a charge. His exhaustive reclaiming of the Thames inks in colorful new detail on his vast gene-map of the city of his birth. The coordinates he gives may not lead you to God or give you an exact address for London's soul. But for a place to start the journey, look for the spot marked "Ackroyd...