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These certainly are not the most obvious names one might choose to headline a portrait of Harvard's most highly-touted team in a decade, but the line has enabled every big play the more glamorous players have made...
First displaying a century-old studio portrait of an innocent young girl looking naively into the distance, Director of Children's Studies at Harvard Kiku R. Adatto flipped the projector to reveal a shot of a naked, waiflike Kate Moss gazing erotically into the camera while peddling Calvin Klein perfume...
...this surprising portrait a sign of hope? Or is it just an example of youthful naivete? Probably both. "One word explains it--experience," speculates sociologist Joe R. Feagin. "You have to be out looking for jobs and housing to know how much discrimination is out there. People doing that are usually over 19." Sure enough, only a quarter of black teens surveyed said they had been victims of discrimination, whereas half of black adults say they have. For all that, these kids remain astonishingly optimistic: 95% of the black youngsters think they're going on to college...
...once, all the elements meshed. The sale totaled $206.5 million, the largest return ever on a private collection sold at auction. The $48.4 million bid by an undisclosed buyer for Picasso's The Dream, a lyrically erotic 1932 portrait of his mistress, Marie-Therese Walter, was the second highest sum ever paid for a Picasso...
...vocalist who has a great knowledge of African-American music history, as well as a desire to innovate. On her live album she not only evokes Billie Holiday, Chaka Kahn, Roy Ayres and Miles Davis, but she also demonstrates an amazing originality and octave range. Live is a jazzy portrait of a charming Southern gal as funk goddess. Posing on the cover as a very pregnant butterfly (Badu was expecting during the recording of the album), she comes into her own, leaving the impression that she is beautifully, sassily, definitively Erykah...