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...customers were wealthy African Americans. Since then, her clientele has diversified. Her work on the several homes of hip-hop entrepreneur Andre Harrell is masculine, bold and warm. She uses classic pieces but freshens them with brazen upholstery or colors. The home she made for Eileen and Peter Norton, of Norton Utilities fame, is more eclectic, incorporating the Nortons' vast and pluralistic art collection, but it's not jumbled. She knew their home could withstand the iconic force of Frank Gehry and Marcel Wanders chairs. This year she decorated President Bill Clinton's new offices in Harlem with surprisingly modern...
...PLAYING WITH FIRE: Sebastian Junger's first book, "The Perfect Storm" (1997), was a huge bestseller that was made into a movie. Kirkus is betting on his follow-up book, "Fire" (Norton; October 1), giving it a starred review. "Run-for-cover writing from scary places, by Junger, a man with an appetite for the ragged edge of life and ability to write abut it with restrained power. The ten pieces in this collection of magazine articles, one of which won a National Magazine Award for Reporting, have the authentic tang of dispatches from the front...Deeply affecting stories...
...Anytime there's not an immediate problem that's apparent to people it's tough to convince people to think long-term," sniffed Bush before he, Cheney, Gail Norton and Spencer Abraham fanned out across the country Monday. (Bush did not publicly reconsider the wisdom of using a predictably short-term "crisis" to sell the plan in the first place...
Meanwhile, Norton made extensive script revisions, especially in scenes he shared with De Niro. "There were moments on this movie when Bob and I disagreed," says Norton, "when Frank and I disagreed intensely and when Frank and Marlon butted heads. But the assumption that conflict is bad is wrong. It's just creative wrestling." In the end, the movie worked out fine, and it has been getting good response from preview audiences. "I don't care about tension on the set if it's all about the movie and the character," says Oz, who admits he learned a valuable lesson...
...GALE NORTON Interior Secretary...