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Zoologists have known??for many years that homosexuality isn't uncommon among animals. (My own cat has raised suspicions ever since he tried to mount a cowering male dachshund.) But I was surprised to learn recently that male sheep exhibit homosexuality at least as often as humans: roughly 8% of rams turn out to have sex exclusively with other rams...
...course there's a lot more to look at than your feet in this ancient city, although the poorly maintained sidewalks and snarled traffic do explain why freewheeling Istanbullus?as locals here are known???prefer to get around by boat when they can. Newly reinvigorated by a burgeoning young population of trendy, extravagant professionals like Kocabiyikoglu, Istanbul is suddenly the focus of luxury-goods purveyors looking to expand in what up to now has been a small market. Fendi has three retail doors with a fourth on the slate, Louis Vuitton is expanding its small store on the Asian side...
...hardest sell could be the category for which Valentino is best known???gowns. "Don't forget, we have the sari. It's sexier than any other dress," says Mafatlal. "We have a very strong sense of our own culture. The sari is always going to stay for black-tie functions, although women do want gowns for less formal occasions...
...aged warrior?who was probably in his early 80s, though his exact age was never known???had presided over the bloody transition to independence, and for 15 years had held his country's fractious tribes together. Under Mzee...
...catalogue essay describes the decay of the relationship between serious photography and the dying picture magazines in the '60s, along with what he terms the growing realization among photographers that the camera's testimony about news was "opaque and superficial." He roundly states that "good photographers had long since known???whether or not they admitted it to their editors?that most issues of importance cannot be photographed." So one of the messages of the show is clear: in the judgment of MOMA?the first American museum to treat photography systematically as an art and perhaps the most powerful taste-forming...