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...Louboutin, a landscape and garden fanatic, often looks to nature for ideas. Starting out, he tried covering his shoes in fish scales. Another, more successful idea was embedding hydrangea petals in a clear silicone heel. He even tapped into the recycling trend with his "trash" shoes, which incorporated old m??tro tickets and caf receipts in the heels. "He looks at everything," says his close friend Diane von Furstenberg. "His shoes are like sculptures, objects, jewels." But Louboutin knows that women's most desired treasures are the ones they can wear...
...other autophoniography exposed last week was by a woman now living in Dudley, Mass., named Misha Defonseca. In Misha: A M??moire of the Holocaust, not yet published in the U.S. but already celebrated in Europe, she claims that she was adopted by a pack of wolves who protected her from the Nazis. The French have even made a movie about this episode, called Surviving with Wolves...
...Believe," the clamorous retrospective that opened recently at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City. In the 13 years since he relocated to New York, Cai has moved on to many other kinds of art, including dreamlike sculptures and big theatrical installations like Head On--dozens of papier-m??ch wolves galloping headlong into a glass wall. In the same period, he's also become a star on the global-exhibition circuit, a position the Guggenheim show certifies. The show also draws out the apocalyptic mood in a piece like Head On. It's not only gunpowder that gets burned...
...display—no Nativity crèche, no Advent wreath lightings—received any such attention, in the campus daily or on email lists. Surely there are still Christians on campus who cling tightly to their Christmastime traditions, but theirs do not figure meaningfully in the multicultural m??lange that dominates Harvard this time of year...
...form.”Are Gordimer’s “Beethoven” stories, in their formal and thematic abrasiveness, perhaps working towards such a new idiom? Seen charitably, the fictional world of “Beethoven Was One-sixteenth Black” is one of interracial m??lange, in which, by disregarding syntax, we can circle the absent center of identity. As the title story’s protagonist probingly asks, “So what’s happened to the ideal of the Struggle (the capitalized generic of something else that?...