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...castle near Plympton Street. The room, a circular creation, featured book-lined walls—everything from a collection of bound Time magazines to a set of now-dead alumnus John Updike’s Rabbit, Run series. On top of the bookcases stood a collection of knick-knacks that included an empty bottle of Maker’s Mark—a FlyBy favorite—a bottle of peroxide, a pink Flamingo, and the Improper Bostonian’s 2008 award for “the party you weren’t invited...
...years past, former New York Knick and New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley talked about being a "small-town boy" from Missouri; Gary Hart launched his 1984 bid by describing himself "as the son of Dust Bowl farm parents who never finished high school"; and in the opening paragraph of his announcement in 1974, Jimmy Carter said "I am a farmer, an engineer, a businessman, a planner, a scientist, a governor and a Christian." In this approach, biography is destiny...
...profane, hyper-animated Butch Van Breda Kolff, above, who held 13 head-coaching jobs in a 30-year career, the 1969 decision was no big deal--even though his Los Angeles Lakers lost to the Boston Celtics and V.B.K., as he was known, was fired. An ex--New York Knick, he coached teams including the Detroit Pistons, the Phoenix Suns and Bill Bradley's Princeton squad--and treasured teamwork and unselfishness above all. "Life isn't much different than [basketball]," he once said. "If it's run right, with precision, with good, honest effort, it's a thing of beauty...
...founded on a neat bit of irony: the dancers on-stage are playing themselves. They actually had to go through a Broadway audition so that they could pretend to be going through a Broadway audition.Take the show out of Broadway, and you take the cool, meta-theatrical knick-knacks out of the show. This loss of irony killed the last quarter of Friday’s production. The extended, on-stage discussion about the state of dance, theater, Broadway, etc. fell entirely flat. I might care to hear professional dancers talk about struggles that are actually theirs, but when Katie...
...first bomb was driven by scooter or rickshaw into Paharganj, a run-down food-and-clothes bazaar containing a handful of backpacker hostels. The second was planted in the Sarojini Nagar market, a ramshackle collection of open-air stalls crammed with knock-off designer wear and cheap plastic knick-knacks. Both areas were favorites of lower-middle-class Indians. And when the devices were detonated, between 5:30 and 6:00 p.m., both places were packed with families of all faiths buying gifts, fireworks and fairy lights on the last shopping day before the Hindu festival of Diwali, the Festival...