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...mile drive from her home in Shreveport, La., to New Orleans to indulge her passion for 18th century English furniture and accessories. She has made 20 purchases in the city's shops, including tables, mirrors, silver serving pieces and jewelry. Her favorite: a 100-year-old collapsible library ladder with leather rungs for $2,000. "I've acquired antiques from all over the world, in places like Singapore, Hong Kong, Paris and New York City," says Goodman. "But I think New Orleans is one of the best places to shop--for everything from fine items that cost a bundle...
...organization’s large size and sprawling network of committees has daunted newcomers and earned it notoriety as a “leadership ladder,” Warren says...
Sugar longs to climb the well-defended ramparts of English society, and her ladder up arrives in the form of William Rackham, the dreamy, indolent heir to a perfume empire. She turns his head with her literary prattle--she's like Lolita and Humbert Humbert in one body--and he installs her in a fancy apartment. Sugar's rise is rapid, but as a great man once said, mo' money, mo' problems. On her way up she has to deal with Rackham's dysfunctional family, including his half-mad mystic wife Agnes and his devout but lustful brother Henry, while...
...employee of Harvard’s art museums for 41 years, Cohn certainly fits the bill. Beginning as a volunteer just out of Harvard graduate school, Cohn worked her way up Harvard’s job scale, hitting nearly every rung on the ladder in the last four decades...
...want to laugh when I hear that. I don't know if anybody has moved up the ladder more quickly than I have...