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...collective endeavor to figure out what we are or should be doing here. Flirting with ideas for four years in a liberal arts institution is not even justifiable to most citizens of the First World (in fact, it is a peculiarly American luxury), so to a Laotian or Burundian peasant the moral difference between working 80 hours per week at Goldman, Sachs and studying at Harvard or paying to participate in World Teach is negligible (or more likely still, completely irrelevant). As for the worth of business people, investment bankers and consultants may add to GDP and still...
Last night more than 90 people attended a screening of Ermo, a satire about a peasant woman obsessed with owning the largest television set in her village. The film won Zhou international acclaim...
...what a variety of fans crowded the smoke-drenched Paradise that night. The amount of white baseball caps rivaled the long peasant skirt supply. A B.C.-capped guy in a leather bomber jacket danced enthusiastically on a table beside--not with or against, but beside--two fair waifs in spaghetti-strap tank tops. Behind this reviewer on the balcony, the over-60 crowd bopped and hummed and probably missed Jerry Garcia a great deal...
Other characters include a charming group of Welsh peasant men and women who act as something of a chorus in the show, as well as Nicholas Meunier in the role of Idwal Morris, a Welsh coal-miner who always steals the hearts of the audience with his mischievous antics. Both the peasants and Meunier add a touch of well-needed lightness and amusement to the play...
...private dealer whose stockroom is one of the best in the U.S. Acquavella impressed on Wynn that in the art market, there are no bargains: he would have to pay top dollar for top works. The big test of this came with buying the first of two Van Goghs, Peasant Woman Against a Background of Wheat, painted a few weeks before the artist's suicide at Auvers-sur-Oise in 1890. This exceptional portrait had been hanging on loan in the Metropolitan Museum, and it cost Wynn a nonnegotiable $47.5 million of his own money, not the Bellagio...