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...some of the most haunting canvases in this show are the paintings by Juan S�nchez Cot�n. His practice was not so much to present as to isolate a few vegetables and pieces of fruit on a shelf or suspend them above it on strings. All are sharply lit before a deep black background, the simplest products of creation, not just seen but beheld, and summoning us from the darkness. What should we make of the mysterious gravity in these pictures? Perhaps just that in fiercely religious Spain, even a cabbage could be God's anointed messenger...
...office is just about the only thing that DiSesa's book has in common with The Girl's Guide to Kicking Your Career into Gear, by Caitlin Friedman and Kimberly Yorio (Broadway). With its comparatively prim language and earnest encouragements, The Girl's Guide is like chick-lit for M.B.A.s: "You've figured out where you are. And realized that you're not satisfied. Of course, you're not. Ambitious girls never are." This book is pitched to a younger audience than DiSesa's, which speaks to the more seasoned and frustrated businesswoman. The Girl's Guide is best...
...uncomfortable way as a young female author, where the implication is, ‘Oh, you only got published because you’re young and marketable,’” she says.She describes her first photo shoot, a spread of the “lit world’s new ‘it’ girls” for Radar Magazine, with a wry sense of humor. “They put me in a tiny leopard print minidress with gold platforms and a gold belt and hair like this,” she says, gesturing...
...Raul is pushing further economic liberalization and improved ties with the U.S. (Washington has maintained a trade embargo against Cuba since 1962). But, because he lacks the charisma that helped keep his brother in power so long, Raul also has to keep the legendary Fidelista flame at least half lit. Even as he pledged at his inauguration to make Cuba "more efficient" and to "start removing" its "excess of prohibitions," he declared Fidel "irreplaceable" and insisted he would "continue consulting" his bearded brother on policy decisions...
...Seeking a distraction, he lit a cigar and exited the study. He wobbled down the hall, penetrating into its gloom at an uncertain pace...