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...coming in that day. I was confused, tired, sweaty and annoyed—not sexy. Plus, later in the week, I discovered that the cocky, Banana-Republic intern in the office down the hall was being paid twice as much as I was. Was I being penalized for my jean jacket...
With a career growing, Puryear, 60, has done a number of public art projects in recent years. The latest (still in design) is for the state of Illinois, commemorating the first pioneer to settle in what eventually became Chicago: a fur trader named Jean-Baptiste Pointe du Sable, (1745-1818). Little is known about Du Sable except that (through his mother's Haitian ancestry) he was black. This became a matter of some importance to the city's black community, and Puryear, who lived in Chicago in the 1980s, has been approached about a possible monument to its obscure founder...
...SHAH AFRIDI, 55, editor and owner of the English-language Pakistani newspaper Frontier Post, to death for drug trafficking; in Islamabad. Reporters Sans Frontieres has denounced the verdict, saying it was "more for his critical coverage of Anti-Narcotics Force activities than for supposed drug trafficking." INVESTIGATION DROPPED, Against JEAN-CHRISTOPHE MITTERRAND, 54, son of the late French President FranCois Mitterrand, for procedural violations; in Paris. Mitterrand was investigated in connection with the sale of $600 million worth of arms to the Angolan government...
...cigarette lighter in Strangers on a Train is more memorable than the image of Cézanne's apple, French director Jean-Luc Godard wrote, it's because Hitchcock was "the greatest creator of forms of the 20th century, and it's forms that tell us finally what lies at the bottom of things." Forms were Hitchcock's fetish, and he was a master at etching an image into his audience's memory. Movie fans will immediately recognize the show's small gold lighter with the initials A.G. engraved around a tennis racket as being from Strangers, and the smashed...
...slipperiest slope is the one that begins, "Tout comprendre, c'est tout pardonner." To understand everything is to forgive everything. Put Jean Valjean on the moral sliding board. Instead of stealing candlesticks, have him line up seven people in a basement and shoot them in the head. You might have to rewrite Les Miserables a little. A realignment of sympathies will have occurred as to who is the innocent victim in the case...