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...YORK Halfway between Third and Lexington Avenues on 101st Street, just on the border between the posh Upper East side of Manhattan and the Southernmost part of Spanish Harlem a group of about a hundred people are waiting for the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson...
Stander, skilled in disguises and schooled in police tactics, always spoke softly to terrified tellers. "If one can be polite when threatening someone else with a gun, Stander was," said one victim. Stander drove a yellow 1975 Porsche, rented three posh homes in suburban Johannesburg, and even when on the lam used to jog undetected amid police stakeouts...
...International: "You're with people more in tune with what you're doing. It's comfortable, not loud or raucous." Dallas Manufacturers' Representative Howard Krell and his wife Elise had formerly sought refuge from the clamor of 1,000-room hotels by lodging in small, posh inns. But the Sheraton chain has won them over with its "distinguished corporate service." Says Elise Krell: "The express elevator whisks you off to the 46th floor, and you feel you're in heaven...
Remember the humble office calendar? It was just a ho-hum piece of desk equipment, a chintzy plastic tray with 365 nondescript pages on it. But now it is being replaced by the posh and prestigious desk diary. Bound in padded leather with the owner's name or initials stamped in gold on the cover and decorated with silken page markers, the best-bred datebooks look a bit like church hymnals, and they command nearly the same reverence...
They came from prisons, posh suburbs, lunatic asylums and nursing homes. But they had one common trait: originality. Their art, generously displayed in American Folk Art of the Twentieth Century (Rizzoli; 342 pages; $45) shows astonishing visual power and aesthetic range. Eddie Arning, for example, who spent more than 60 years in a Texas mental institution, contributes eerie, compelling images that resemble Egyptian friezes. Inez Nathaniel Walker began drawing disquietingly grotesque portraits in prison. "There were all those bad girls talking dirty all the time," she recalls, "so I just sit down at a table and draw." All the artists...