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Gleaning this much from the book jacket, I was on my way to the cash register to buy it when I set it down again, realizing that I just don’t want to know. As much as it feels necessary to learn the details of the depravity of those in power, the time has come to face the fact that in politics, such knowledge is not enough to dislodge them...
...case of one Harvard applicant I met while on vacation in Montana, trying to impose the affirmative action model is absurd. I arrive at our meeting wearing a herringbone grey jacket from Brooks Brothers and accompanying dress slacks (Harvard taking its toll?) and he in a flannel jacket, a Wrangler button-clasp shirt and tight boot-cut jeans. The applicant comes from a ranch in the outlying area; his family raises Angus steers, and we talk for a little while about mad cow disease, about which he is extremely well-informed. Even with the mad cow scourge (which is really...
Cheng-San Chen, the owner of Louie’s, described the alleged suspect as a five-foot-four black male around 140 pounds and between the ages of 18 and 20, wearing a black jacket, black pants and a do-rag on his head...
...both are aging rou?s, the kind Dedini used to draw in his cartoons. The iconic bunny (a rabbit in an ascot) is today as much an anachronism as the New Yorker?s Eustace Tilley (a fop with a monocle). Or as Hefner, in his silk pajamas and red smoking jacket, when billionaires wear T shirts. Hef, with his interchangeable sex partners (two are twins) and his trademark pipe traded in for Diet Pepsi and Viagra, has become what we are all in danger of morphing into as we grow old: parodies of our younger selves...
Over time Currin has gone through a succession of styles, from the deliberately slapdash to an ever more fine-grained illusionism, the kind that reports to the eye in detail about the clammy surface of a raw turkey or the plush of a fur jacket. But at every turn, his chief subject has been women, sometimes silky and creamy, sometimes wrinkled and brittle, sometimes with stupendous, impossible breasts...