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...said Ambrose’s mother, Sharon N. Ambrose. “Maybe it gets worse.” With every Sept. 11 since the attacks, the Ambroses attend memorial services at the Pentagon. “They had 184 beams of light that they lit up above the Pentagon, one for each person who was killed at the Pentagon,” said Sharon. “You looked up as you sat there, and these beams seemed to go on forever,” she said. “They disappeared into the night.” Kenneth...
...voyeur, he captured lovers - like those in Couple at the Four Seasons Dance Hall, Rue de Lappe (circa 1932), pictured - prostitutes and brothels, some "like a chapel lit up for midnight mass." About 190 drawings of a "born draftsman," as Pablo Picasso labeled him, will also be on offer, alongside a dozen of Brassaï's sculptures; prices range from about $250 to $100,000. Not bad for the night shift. www.brassai-succession-millon.com
...those of us who were in the streets of New York, it looked like the end of the world. But for many Harvard undergrads, it seemed the world outside these gates had just begun to matter. So candles were lit. Blood was given. Meetings were cancelled. Parties were postponed. For once, people went through a kind of reorientation as to what was really important in a day, a semester, a life...
...Idiocracy is so aesthetically displeasing--its vision of the future so purposely, gaudily, corporately ugly--that even showing a second of it made people refuse to see it. Judge's unslick look might work for hand-drawn cartoons of hicks or a movie that takes place in poorly lit cubicles, but it's not so great for a sci-fi action comedy. It just doesn't look or feel like Talladega Nights or Dodgeball. Even though Fox probably made a million dollars' worth of trailers and ads, they empirically knew from testing that every dollar they spent on ad time...
...brainchild is [an error occurred while processing this directive] the Soho-based Lucky Voice, the British capital's most authentically Japanese karaoke bar featuring nine private rooms that hold up to 12 people. Once you and your fellow croonies have settled onto the semicircular benches in your snug, dimly lit lair, press a glowing button labeled "Thirsty," which summons a smiling server, and you'll be downing cocktails and nibbling on dim sum in minutes. Our test troupe of warblers featured dead ringers for Alanis Morissette alongside nervous off-key newbies who quickly lost their inhibitions and refused to give...