Word: leone
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Conda Nast, only contributors may accept outside assignments. Andra Leon Talley, who was creative director at Vogue, did styling for Versace and John Galliano. He says he was never paid for this work. Brana Wolf, a contributor at Vogue, has worked for Calvin Klein. Though she is not on staff, she exerts an influence: her name appeared on at least one major fashion story in 11 of the past 12 issues. At Harper's Bazaar, fashion director Tonne Goodman, who has worked for Calvin Klein, still does occasional styling for her old boss...
...cases to the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, and the presence of many courtroom observers reflected that prominence. Congressmen, political scientists, legal experts, and advocacy representatives packed the room. In the midst of all these dignitaries sat six of us and our professor, Federal Judge Emeritus A. Leon Higginbotham...
...days of oratory from top Administration officials found the theme enunciated even before the speechmaking started. A chart on an easel bore the headline cutting medicare to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy. Cabinet secretaries, economic officials and most of all White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta banged away relentlessly; they criticized other proposals, such as a reduction in funding for Head Start, almost parenthetically. Democratic pollster Stan Greenberg, recalling the hammering Republicans took earlier for proposing less generous funding of school lunches, described the Medicare issue as "school lunch times...
This peculiar character was shared by other still-life artists in Spain, who turned their tables into arrays of symmetrical dishes and vases that have the liturgical solemnity of altars. Such abstraction persists even in the more materialistic work of Juan van der Hamen y Leon (1596-1631), whose "aristocratic" still lifes are arranged on different levels like an architectural stage, glittering with invitation. Each detail--the sheen of silver, the frosting of sugar and spice (real luxuries then) on a macaroon or a doughnut, the translucency of candied fruit--speaks of privilege...
...Gardner's next season opens on September 24, when the museum's own chamber orchestra will be joined by conductor and Harvard's Walter Bigelow Rosen Professor of Music Emeritus Leon Kirchner for Stravinsky's Dumbarton Oaks Concerto and Mozart's Piano Concerto in C minor, K. 491. Levinson is scheduled to return as soloist in the Mozart...