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...amazing as well—take Koto Bolofo’s editorial for L’Uomo. More like a photo of an Alvin Ailey practice session than a fashion shoot, the photo captures the grace of four men in black tank tops tumbling over each other in the passion of their basketball game. Takehasi Hamma’s “Louis Vitton, Ginza, Tokyo,” is eye-popping in a much different way. It causes the viewer to focus on the hypnotic architecture of the namesake’s department store while almost burying the elegantly...
...Zinn began a playwrighting project, which resulted in Emma, Boston’s longest-running play in 1977, followed by productions in New York, London and Japan. Theater has always been a side-passion of Zinn’s; his wife and son, who directed Emma in its New York run, are both heavily involved in the dramatic world. Theater, Zinn said, is unlike academia because it is collective and honest, devoid of the “extraneous considerations” that pervade university life. In some sense, he turns history into drama with his vivid descriptions: the tale...
...show with an ultimatum: kinkify their sex life—or else. Jeff, who prefers “old-school missionary position sex,” finds Katie’s proposals and past performances outrageous. In addition to stabbing Jeff with an earring in a fit of passion, Katie has unscrewed hot light bulbs and charred his nipples. The final verdict? Sixty-three percent of the audience felt the couple should talk it out. Jeff ultimately acquiesced to Kate’s demands: “I love you. I don’t want to lose...
Professional sports, and football in particular, have never been my passion. It’s a dark—if poorly concealed—secret, and not one to be discussed publicly. There are a few exceptions to the general rule: I casually follow the pro tennis circuit, and I’ve even been known to enjoy the few Major League Baseball games I attend each summer. But on the whole, professional sports have never really appealed to me. When it comes to football, the sport no red-blooded American male can live without...
...cold climate, they long for love: a newly widowed minister, a hairdresser, a bakery clerk, a restaurant manager, a hotel functionary, a cook. Once a week they take Italian lessons--even the cook, who is, in fact, Italian. The language is, after all, one of passion's vernaculars, capable of warming even these chilled and distracted souls...