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...Minding Her Manners In her review of the Tuscan hotel L'Andana [Sept. 4], Catherine Mayer says the general manager might remember her as "the Guest from Hell: high maintenance, capricious and, quite frankly, badly behaved." She adds, "I was only doing my job." But was it really necessary for her to engage in the absolutely obnoxious behavior she went on to describe? I'm sure that by the time she and her companions got through with the staff and management of L'Andana, the smug trio left behind more than a few bad feelings. I have close friends...
...wished away. It may transform itself into a "cafeteria Atlanticism" - wariness in general, coupled with recognition that there will be places both sides need to do business. When Blair chose to fight the anti-American mood inside the Labour Party at its annual conference last week, he picked for guest speaker the mayor of Los Angeles, Antonio Villaraigosa - a Hispanic environmentalist and public-transit advocate from a state that just passed into law a version of the Kyoto accords. By the time he finished, the delegates were radiating fraternal feelings toward this representative of the U.S. Frenchman Benjamin Bechaux...
...Beirut airport. Those who took Assistant Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies and of History of Art and Architecture Carrie Lambert-Beatty’s History of Art and Architecture 10 may find the name Michael Blum more familiar—the Israeli-born artist was a guest lecturer in the class last spring. Blum’s installation in Athens was entitled “A Tribute to Safiye Behar” and the nomadic museum “memorialized” the life of a fictive Turkish woman from the 1930s, raising the question of how easy...
...some of the most unkind, hurtful, and––dare I say it––agitated commentary ever to see airtime. Ordinarily calm, even-handed, and intellectually honest, Fox was thrust unwittingly into the unfamiliar realm of the angry political diatribe when a guest lost his calm and flaunted his nasty, baseless feelings before the entire nation. Who was this guest who so compromised Fox’s reputation for candid honesty and unfaltering decency? None other than former President of the United States William Jefferson Clinton. Perhaps some readers will be unsurprised...
...soulful vocals within a more-or-less traditional rock context; “Return to Cookie Mountain” surpasses it in every way. The songs are all nearly perfect: relentlessly percussive, and affecting without being sappy. As if that weren’t enough, David Bowie performs a guest benediction on “Province.”Digital, mechanical, and organic elements are combined to make a sound that is dark without being hopeless, propulsive without being stupid. It may sound hyperbolic, but the closest point of comparison is Radiohead’s “OK Computer...