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...posed for a portrait with a plastic bag over his face. He took a bow with his butt hanging out of his pants. He made models walk over pebbles while gripping spiked dental braces in their mouths. The front-row set at his shows is as tense as cats...
...Jiang Qing, Mao Zedong's third wife, liked to sit on her own tours of the capital?I sip champagne, nibble caviar and nod as my 20-year-old tour guide, Maggie, recounts tales of China's glorious communist past. As we pass Tiananmen Square and its floodlit portrait of Chairman Mao, I've suddenly had enough. Unable to take more of Maggie's garbled history, I interrupt to ask: "Don't you find it strange to be riding in the car of the most reviled woman in China?" Maggie shrugs. "Why would it be strange? She's famous?just...
...AWARDED. CLAIRE TOMALIN, 69, British biographer, the 2002 Whitbread book-of-the-year award and its purse of $48,000, for Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self, a portrait of the 17th-century patrician playboy and diarist; in London. Tomalin beat her husband, novelist and playwright Michael Frayn, who won the best-novel prize for his thriller Spies...
...sacred mission of the press is simply to inform. But when thorough, aggressive reporting paints an unflattering portrait of a college or its administrators, censorship at public universities inevitably arises. The so-called educators believe that the search for truth—the central goal of any university—is not so important when the truth-seekers are student reporters covering the administration...
...front door of the Kroger supermarket in a suburb of Columbus, Ohio, knew a family of attractive marks when she saw one. Here was a nice-looking young couple with their cooing newborn in the shopping cart: perfect targets for a high-speed spiel. "Have you had a family portrait yet? We're running a special deal this week, one 10 by 13-inch portrait, a $60 value, right now for just $8. Oh, the baby's so cute. Can I sign...