Word: marcus
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Critic Greil Marcus finds himself defending even dumb pop. "If a Swedish director wanted to make a Rambo," says Marcus, "it wouldn't be very convincing. Only Americans are arrogant, vulgar and moronic enough to make a fantasy like that credible. But I'll put our vulgar moronism versus their refined elitism any day. I'm not saying Chuck Berry is better than Flaubert. But I also don't want to live in a world where there's only one or the other...
...Nancy C. Marcus...
...love handles." Though they share a basic philosophy, spas vary considerably in style. At the ultraluxe end of the scale are Maine Chance in Phoenix, the haven of Elizabeth Arden loyalists, and the Greenhouse in Arlington, Texas, where ladies dress for dinner and are whisked off to Neiman-Marcus for an afternoon's shopping. At the other extreme is the bare-bones Wooden Door in Lake Geneva, Wis. Guests pay as little as $365 for five days and bring their own sheets and towels. "It's not primitive. It's rustic," declares Co-Founder Jill Adzia. "Primitive is sleeping...
...They were able to get a much better idea of who we were," said Marcus Q. Mitchell. "We wanted to be totallyhonest. There was no question we couldn't answer,"Mitchell said...
There was at least one April Fool's Daybeliever in Harvard Yard, however. "I reallythought he was coming," said Marcus Q. Mitchell'89. "Didn't you just see all of the limos inTercentenary Theatre...