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...true that what the Serengeti Plain is to lions, the poshest private grade schools in Manhattan are to head lice. In recent years the head-lice problem at private schools has increased at almost the same rate as tuition, leading to the theory, not yet proved, that some of these places must be charging...
...Rembrandt in all its pathos. From prodigy to pauper, the troubled genius of 17th century Dutch painting is intricately conceived as he rises and falls in a world of war, plague and stolid bourgeois comfort. A galvanic force--ambitious, hugely inventive, avaricious--he is the portraitist of the poshest plutocrats, nobly aglitter, and the allegorist of human wreckage. Schama's book is a marvel of storytelling: sometimes heart pounding, always sympathetic and coolly reasoned. Seamlessly joining social history and art, what a triumph of scholarship and imagination...
...impasse. A conference center at the base, named after comedian Bob Hope, will be available on the chance that they will eventually proceed from proximity to togetherness. But initially, at least, they will stay in separate generals' quarters, chosen to head off any arguments as to who got the poshest accommodations. When direct talks fail, they will negotiate through U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke, who can move from one group to another, as he already has for almost three months. Secretary of State Warren Christopher can drop in quickly as and if needed...
...evening's "official" party, thrown by the Samuel Goldwyn Co. to celebrate the premiere of its film Golden Gate, was noisy and crowded and located in one of the area's poshest ski lodges. But as usual, the serious action didn't begin until later, at the unofficial afterparties. The hot ticket that night at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah (pop. 4,468), was a bash thrown in a rented condo by the William Morris talent agency and 20th Century-Fox. Actually, invitations were hardly needed; anybody who could find a parking spot on the clogged, snow...
Grand Hotel is set in the poshest spot in Berlin in 1928, the very year that Threepenny premiered. In this rarefied place, even victims are privileged: a bankrupt baron (David Carroll), an embattled industrialist (Timothy Jerome), a ballerina in decline (Liliane Montevecchi) and her dogsbody, a closet lesbian (Karen Akers). A dying accountant, played by Michael Jeter with a dazzling mix of febrile weakness and life-grabbing gusto, has enough money to live out his waning days in luxury, while a typist (Jane Krakowski) who moves from man to man always has her looks to fall back...