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...taste for cocaine, the master of deductive reasoning and elaborate disguise, has left his mark everywhere - in crime literature, film and television, cartoons and comic books. Even his home on Baker Street has for decades been one of London's most popular tourist destinations: the Sherlock Holmes Museum...
...effusive, stream-of-consciousness style. Instead, by freely celebrating the emotional impact of skyscrapers and other structures, the author and longtime New York Times critic changed the way people think about architecture. In a characteristically exuberant 1997 article that brought him national attention, he likened Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, to Marilyn Monroe. (The building had a "voluptuous style" and an apparent urge to "let its dress fly up in the air.") Muschamp was 59 and had lung cancer...
...Affleck worried? He looks positively pained as he sits in a deserted midtown New York City restaurant in his three-stripe Adidas jacket and heavily pocketed khakis. It turns out he spent the morning at a children's museum, put a little too much enthusiasm into picking up his 22-month-old daughter Violet (with wife Jennifer Garner) and threw out his back. The tenderness is not just around the lumbar region, however. He's cautious. The a≠able, self-deprecating, funny guest of Jay Leno or Jon Stewart is not here today. This is a man who warily...
Denis S.K. Low, a retired realtor and Singapore native, has been amassing them for 28 years. His collection now stretches to 1,300 items - 355 of which feature in his latest book, Chinese Snuff Bottles. A selection can also be seen in an exhibition at Singapore's Asian Civilisations Museum until Nov. 7. In his text, Low describes the look and significance of every 2-in. to 3-in. (5-7 cm) piece. The interplay of fauna and flora - from quails to monkeys and lotus flowers to peonies - reflects the world of deference and ambition that centered on the Emperor...
...with the Fogg Art Museum closing for its own renovation, the Fine Arts Library needed a new home. In the winter of 2005, administrators decided that Littauer would become that home, indefinitely stalling economist’s hopes for changes to their creaky building...