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...night before his show, when he should be consumed with jitters, he's working the crowd at Bloomingdale's. An event in his honor on the fourth floor has not exactly been mobbed, so he takes two models down the escalators and starts introducing himself to shoppers and telling them there are free drinks on the fourth floor. Soon, the number of women looking at his clothes has swelled...
Much of Dutt’s speech, however, focused away from issues of state and politics and instead on the Sunnit Dutt Cancer Foundation, which he founded in honor of his wife who died of cancer...
...wife had been members of several choirs during his life, and the ceremony included three musical interludes performed in his honor...
...always holding a cigarette. The image befitted a man who had by then become such an artistic force that the National Gallery in Berlin dedicated an entire room to his work in 1932. The Nazis put a stop to that the following year and eventually accorded Beckmann the unintended honor of a place in the notorious "Degenerate Art" exhibit in Munich in 1937. During the following years in exile, Beckmann fled not to abstraction but to a treatment of life's fundamentals: he painted powerful tableaux entitled Birth and Death, and did many paintings of women, often using his wife...
...importance. The more time has gone on, the more overwhelming and depressing the task of learning these things has seemed. These days, I’ve just decided to move on to the next platform of existence by accepting my pure ignorance. It is almost a perverse badge of honor to feel less knowledgeable about computers than a precocious three-year-old. As a director, this hasn’t affected my professional life too much at all, because I always have been able to hire assistants to help me gain access to things I don’t understand...