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...after, I listened to radio: NPR for the news, WOR and WABC for the commentary. In a spirit both journalistic and masochistic, I listened as the radio savants tried to make sense of the Floridation of presidential politics. I share the general puzzlement about the electoral college and the origami ballot in Palm Beach County. But I have two other questions. Will someone please explain how the members of the Radio Right can be so sure that they really are right? And why is political talk radio - in a country that has just voted for two middle-of-the-road...
...help but draw comparisions to the surrealism of Magritte and Escher. Yet fashion is hardly a material imitation of the beaux-arts. Of the two forces blurring the distinction between haute couture and prt--porter, it is the upstarts who are keeping fashion alive. From the beautiful origami poetry of Yohji Yamamoto to the jaw-droppingly precise seduction of a Richard Tyler gown to the eclectic utilitarian sensibilities of Helmut Lang (three designers who have yet to fashion a perfume), these younger collections have proven to be high fashion without the pretentious haute couture label, living proof that fashion will...
...eyes, spine, guts and genitals. It could so easily have been otherwise, and in the weeks since I have sometimes thought how wildly, irrationally lucky I was to be spared. But not at the time. With the remains of my rented Japanese car folded around me like crude origami, I was trapped, intermittently conscious but aware of no pain, and losing blood...
DIED. FREDERICK P. ROSE, 75, builder and philanthropist; after a brief illness; in Rye, N.Y.; on Sept. 14. Enthusiastic and mercurial (he made origami animals out of foreign currency), Rose donated more than $95 million to such New York institutions as Lincoln Center, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Hayden Planetarium...
...headquarters for LVMH, the fashion, champagne and other image-heavy-goods conglomerate. Ugly just won't do. But Christian de Portzamparc, the Pritzker-prizewinning French architect, has created a tower with elan. His 23-story building has a kinky, faceted, overlapping-glass facade, like a whimsical piece of origami, which nevertheless abides by all the city's fiddly zoning laws. The mixture of transparent and opalescent glass and the etched patterns on the windows enhance the prismatic effect, and will no doubt make quite a sight when the building's 300-ft.-high neon lights are flicked on later this...