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...didn’t want a lot of [budget] spreadsheets,” Vaishnav said. “What I wanted to portray to readers was, if these budget cuts happen, how will the picture [of my local schools] I see be different...
...still spent four weeks agonizing over the right font for his campaign logo. Kerry's rsum of lite schools, a prosecutor's office and the U.S. Senate honored his deliberative process; the presidential campaign proved too fast for it, and Bush never missed a chance to portray Kerry as the hollow man, ever expedient, always cautious, incapable of taking a stand and sticking...
John Travolta's raven mane is nearly as integral to his appeal as his dance-floor-ready hips and dimpled chin. But in A Love Song for Bobby Long, a drama set in New Orleans and due next month, the Pulp Fiction star goes gray to portray an alcoholic literature professor befriended by SCARLETT JOHANSSON. This is no silver-haired sophisticate like Tom Cruise's assassin in this summer's Collateral. "Bobby Long is bruised fruit," says Travolta, 50, of his character. "Kind of decrepit." As for the premature aging, no biggie. "It's never been an issue...
Wolfe's previous novel, A Man in Full, published in 1998, took him 11 long years to finish, and when he was finally through, he wasted no time looking around for fresh territory. He likes to portray himself as a literary opportunist: in his 1989 manifesto "Stalking the Billion-Footed Beast," he scolded American novelists for writing minimalist, self-conscious little books when there's so much rich, strange, documentary material out there. "They don't want to see the world," he has said, "they want to suck their thumbs." After A Man in Full, it occurred to Wolfe...
...dissolute samurai. The shogunate soon barred women from the stage, but male actors embodying the expressive new style developed large followings?and eager customers for their portraits. A lively example is Katsukawa Shunsho's The Actors Ichikawa Danzo III and Onoe Tamizo I, in which the two men portray a courtesan and a samurai with an intensity that literally defies gravity. Other ukiyo-e scenes were drawn from popular literature, especially the tagasode painting theme?literally "Whose sleeves are these?"?a 17th century meditation on an empty kimono. The original poem inspired numerous still-lifes of clothing and fashion accessories...