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...Ocean's Thirteen (third in the series, after Eleven and Twelve), Clooney is again Danny Ocean, the gentleman heistmeister, and once more is surrounded by some pricey film flesh: Brad Pitt, also very easy on the eyes, and Matt Damon, and lots of the old gang in smaller roles: Bernie Mac, Andy Garcia, Carl Reiner, Don Cheadle, Elliott Gould, Casey Affleck. Julia Roberts took this film off, but Al Pacino and Ellen Barkin - last seen together 18 years ago, performing urgent stand-up sex in Sea of Love- are on board for star wattage and the nostalgia factor. Sounds eminently...
...exactly the first thing to come to mind when one is drinking a Mint Julep. In the United States, seersucker was first worn by the working class in the South and then was later adopted by the upper classes, becoming a staple of the Southern Gentleman in the hot months of May through September.For me, seersucker is all about contradictions, embracing tradition, and forging one’s own path. Harvard, after all, is an institution that is filled with brilliance—and also stupidity. During my freshman year, I helped to write an article for this magazine called...
...Scholar and a Gentleman James Graff's profile of François Bayrou [March 26], although most interesting, seemed to give an unfair and somewhat distorted impression of the French presidential candidate's intellectual background. I am writing here as an academic, not a politician. Bayrou is a farmer's son, for sure, and a gentleman farmer, probably. But while he is no product of a French administrative or political grande école, he is a doctor of literature. He is, therefore, quite an erudite individual. No nitwit! And an excellent, learned writer in his own right. Françoise...
...quiet collector of these cool conceptualists, and Puppy's original benefactor, is John Kaldor. With his relaxed slate-blue suit and glasses, Kaldor appears more like a gentleman academic or architect. Yet in the dozen years since Puppy, the former Sydney textile magnate has fashioned for himself one of the more influential roles in contemporary art-and one with more bite than bark. As founder of Kaldor Art Projects and reigning commissioner for Australia's representation at the Venice Biennale, Kaldor is part impresario, part philanthropist. "John's role is more precisely defined as someone who is the visionary," explains...
...this, Burgin replied, “A gentleman from the Harvard Crimson asked me earlier who I thought my audience was. Now I can answer, Homi Bhabha...