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...their back-to-school wardrobe, but Newton does it amusingly. As he capers from Singapore to Melbourne to London, we get glimpses of Anita, who couldn't have sex until handkerchiefs were hung over the saints' pictures in her bedroom, and Josette, who left lipstick smears across his white linen shorts. "Josette was unwilling to terminate our affair," he tells us. "I was too good in bed. Our sex wasn't joyous, it was steamy--'schwul...
Jangling the change in the pocket of his tan linen pants, Marglin explained how Social Analysis 72, “Economics: A Critical Approach,” overcame substantial opposition from the economics department last spring...
...type who thrills to the heady smell of fresh-printed books, the soft touch of their new linen or leather bindings, or the sight of their famous or almost-famous authors, Frankfurt's annual international book fair (www.frankfurt-book-fair.com; October 8-13), is the place for you. Founded in 1949, when East Germany's Leipzig - for centuries the leading book-fair site - was no longer accessible to West German publishers, the Frankfurt exhibition is full of superlatives. In 2002, some 265,000 visitors flocked to the Messegelände to visit the world's largest literary marketplace. They inspected the wares...
...jazz at K2 and dinner at Baithak, a small Nepalese-Mughal eatery with silver trays, Belgian crystal and peeling peppermint walls." But halfway through the scrapbook, the articles stop. The last is dated October 2002. Scores of blank pages follow. Rana leans forward, extends a languid hand from his linen sleeve and silently closes up his interrupted story. "It was fabulous, just fabulous," sighs the 45-year-old. "I could just weep when I remember those days...
...achieving exceptional nuances of texture, translucence and sheen. In addition to oil and watercolor, he worked with chalk, charcoal, pastels, colored pencils, wax color, tempera, varnishes, gypsum, poster paints and colored paste. He used them, in varying combinations and often in several layers, on coarse paper, parchment, newsprint, cotton, linen, gauze, burlap, cardboard, plaster and plywood. Ever the master colorist, he conjured up an eerie, otherworldly radiance, as in Masks at Twilight, by combining black, milky blue and muddy reddish-brown. The spellbinding A Gate shimmers with silvery moonlight, created with white and gray tempera washes on black-painted paper...