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...death of her father. (Don't blame him for the Brooke Shields movie.) For A Ship Made of Paper, his eighth novel, Spencer worked with different characters but similar desperations. Daniel is a New York City lawyer who flees back to Leyden, his childhood home on the Hudson River north of the city. It's a place on the literary map somewhere between Cheeverville and Updike Corners, where adultery is in the air like chimney smoke. Daniel brings with him his girlfriend Kate, a writer who has acid intelligence, a 4-year-old daughter whom Daniel adores and an accelerating...
...calls them, began sprouting up in earnest over the past year, and many have media centers with TVs and sound systems, play areas, doghouses and refreshment stations. "No one wants to do the laundry, but you might as well be comfortable while you're doing it," says homeowner Carolyn Hudson of South Shreveport, La. The laundry room in her antiques-filled ranch incorporates a cozy home office where she checks e-mail and shops online as she waits for the tumble...
...Bianca Jagger wore a pair in 1977 when she rode into Studio 54 on a horse. Carrie on Sex and the City was mugged for hers. Now the shoes are the subject of an exhibition at the Design Museum in London and a new book, Manolo Blahnik Drawings (Thames & Hudson; 200 pages). To prepare for both, Blahnik spent much of the holiday season traveling even more. "I don't like this kind of attention," he says. "I still think 'Why did I let myself into this madness...
Indeed, I am certain that Libeskind’s design is aesthetically superior to that of the other finalist. In his preservation of the sunken pit at the base of the towers’ foundation, where the deep slurry walls still hold back the Hudson, there is at least his concession to the incapacity of architectural addition. The most powerful part of his design is that in which he has done nothing. In the pit, there are few flourishes. There is only Libeskind’s realization that the solemn ruins of death are made banal by calling attention...
...Hudson, B.U.’s head librarian and chairman of NEDL, was unavailable for comment this week...