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...killed in a skiing accident the following New Year's Eve, from politics entirely. He again came close to running for Governor last spring, then backed away, fueling speculation that he might be holding out for Ted's Senate seat, should his uncle, who turns 70 next year, hang it up in 2006. But a friend who has seen him lately is not so sure. Joe is making money, giving speeches and sitting on boards while he runs his nonprofit energy company, and doing what he wants with his weekends. "He really is, for the first time, as much...
Civilizations rise and fall, but decorative techniques hang around forever. At least that seems to be the case with trompe l'oeil, painting that aims to fool people into mistaking it for three-dimensional reality. Practiced by the ancient Egyptians and Greeks, mastered by the Dutch and named by the French, this "trick of the eye" is still very much with us and is turning up in some unusual new places...
...brainchild of Caroline Kennedy and the late curator Richard Martin. They strove mightily to give the show an academic and historical gloss. But, really, it is a show about great clothes. And about artifacts, sacred objects assembled to evoke an irretrievable past. Outsize pictures of Jackie and her husband hang from the walls as backdrop for the actual gowns and dresses, poised silently on mannequins and bathed in soft pastels. It is as though Guinevere's gown and tiara suddenly appeared on the mezzanine of the Met, tangible proof that the fairy tale--Camelot--was real...
These relationships require effort on our part too. If our son has a friend whose parents aren't people we'd otherwise hang out with, we will still spend time with the family. Of course, we take special care of Mary. She often depends on us for dinner; my partner picks up her dry cleaning and helps with other errands. Mary is planning to adopt a child, and when she does, we're going to have to go back to diaper bags and bottles of formula long before we imagined. We're ready. It's a chance to return...
...dirty, guides offering tours for an inflated price are maddeningly insistent. The colored engravings are chipped and, in places, have fallen off. The graves in the basement are off-limits, the entrance blocked with untidy wire mesh. The inner sanctum smells of bats and pigeon droppings. Enormous beehives hang from the arches; black smoke stains mark where others have been burned off. The river behind the tomb is sluggish from sewage...