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When Lucia Joyce was born in 1907, no one knew her father James was a genius. He was just a twentysomething layabout, an Irishman drinking away his exile in the Italian city of Trieste, scribbling unpublished manuscripts. Lucia took after her father: tall, pale and skinny. In Carol Loeb Shloss's Lucia Joyce (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 560 pages), she emerges as shy but clever, a bright, pretty girl and a witty mimic. Lucia became a dancer. Her work was by all accounts strange and fascinating--"totally subtle and barbaric," one critic wrote. But her promise was never fulfilled...
...Evening Standard - although her reps now claim they were misquoted and that the whole thing never happened. In any case, Spears was well enough by Oct. 27 to guest-star on the V Graham Norton show, a bawdy late-night chat program hosted by a flamboyantly gay Irishman. Not exactly the sort of telly aimed at Spears' more established fan base of 10- to 14-year-old girls. "We're hoping to pick up a gay audience with this album," says Larry Rudolph, the New York City-based manager who's been guiding Spears since she was 15. "You know...
...Bolivia, and though there are exceptions (there are always exceptions), in acknowledging those truths we come to understand why they’re painful. The white people in Bolivia are rich. They are not all white like we think of white. Their skin is not palely freckled like an Irishman or ruddy red like a Norwegian. They are people the color of beach sand, descended from the Spanish who came 500 years ago and engorged themselves and their empire on Potosí’s silver. They hold the money and the power and control of the military...
...understand this passion for garbage?and dried toads?one must visit an eighth-floor apartment in Bangkok's Chinatown, where a process of transformation occurs that has made this 38-year-old Irishman one of Asia's most unusual and gifted artists. Here, in his bachelor-pad-cum-studio, Swaffield recycles carefully scavenged refuse from across the continent into rare works of art?pieces like Bali, an achingly exquisite collage finished in gold leaf, or Chinatown, an exuberant homage to Swaffield's favorite Hong Kong graffiti artist. Hanging in his tiny bathroom is Conjunctivitis, a maniacal disco ball formed from...
Harvard’s other NCAA qualifier, O’Donnell, took a more circuitous route to his tournament bid. He won his first two matches, before meeting top-seeded Brad Dillon in the semifinals. O’Donnell took Dillon to overtime, but luck was not with the Irishman...