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During Harry Truman's 1949 remodeling, when the building was literally gutted, White House architect Lorenzo Winslow became so intrigued by the stone mystery that he arranged for the Army Engineers to scan the walls with a mine detector...
...Guinness credited John Gielgud with nurturing his early career in the '30s, and he played support in all the usual Shakespeare - Osric and the third player in "Hamlet," Aumerle in "Richard II" and Lorenzo in "The Merchant of Venice." The leads, like the two failed stabs at "Hamlet," nudged him further onto the screen - to pay the bills, Guinness always said - and it was in the movies that he became beloved...
DIED. MICHAELA ODONE, 61, activist who developed a treatment for her son Lorenzo's degenerative brain disease and was portrayed by Susan Sarandon in the film Lorenzo's Oil; of lung cancer; in Fairfax...
...sort of a weakness for the boutiques there. The shirt is Italian; the pants are not! The pants are Perry Ellis, I got them at a department store. The shoes are from Milan. No buckle! I don't dig on the buckle. The belt is from the Mercato San Lorenzo in Florence; you can get yourself one for 12 bucks. Of course you don't need to pick up these things abroad and you don't need to go to the fancy shops--you can window-shop to see what looks good. I am roundly criticized for wearing pink shirts...
There was something oddly charming about the geeks who made up the first wave of Internet entrepreneurs. Social misfits pounding out code in their computer-science labs--these people deserved professional success. But after the Wright Brothers, you get Frank Lorenzo. And so this summer Silicon Valley was flooded by the Second Wave: fast-talking business-school grads whose interest in technology is limited to how it will make them money. This is Silicon Valley in the IPO age. Geeks are history; they're all capitalists now. Netscape founder Marc Andreesen stars in a Miller Lite...