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Born Richard Sylvan Selzer in Brooklyn, N.Y., Blackwell started out as an actor but switched to fashion in 1958 when his career stalled. Fame came with the publication of his first list in 1960. Although he often admitted he was uncomfortable about appearing so publicly mean, Blackwell also said he was compelled to poke fun at celebrity style because fashion designers were not doing their job: they failed to make women look beautiful. While his original intention was to act as a sort of fashion watchdog, Blackwell and his list became a dreaded Hollywood institution that paved...
...though the list began to lose its luster by the late 1990s, the ever acerbic Mr. Blackwell never lost his bite...
...company's method of counting the three steps of foreclosure separately; the numbers, critics said, were wildly inflated. One of the protests came from Kathi Williams, director of the Colorado Division of Housing, who in 2007 publicly called RealtyTrac's numbers--which put Colorado near the top of the list of states with foreclosure problems--"ridiculous and irresponsible." "It was devastating Colorado in terms of consumer confidence and mortgage lending into the state," she says. The Mortgage Bankers Association, which releases well-watched loan-default data of its own, came out swinging as well, with the trade group's chief...
This metonymic technique serves Komunyakaa well, allowing him to provide fresh insight into the things that make up war. But it sometimes veers toward a laundry list or a museum description. The second section of the book, which deals with the implements of war, sometimes loses its momentum due to the weight of the nouns that are loaded upon it. Komunyakaa excels at unemotionally describing scenes and letting the reader draw his own associations from the poetry. However, in poems like “The Clay Army,” he doesn’t add anything beyond the basic...
This year, almost 900 first-year students at Baylor University in Texas retook their SATs. No, this was not a grading mistake. It was because Baylor wanted to boost its ranking in U.S. News and World Report’s list of “Best Colleges.” Baylor incentivized freshmen with $300 at the campus bookstore to retake their SATs and offered $1,000 a year in scholarship aid to those who raised their scores by at least 50 points. Though seemingly cavalier and unethical, programs like this are products of the bizarre and destruction nature...