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...ouevres. Everything will have to be perfect for the opening of “Panopticon,” a show certain to wow reviewers and bring her to the peak of her career. The photos will include the work of luminaries in the photo world, including Simon Eagleton, her raffish ex-husband from her days as a photojournalist in Laos. That will all be over by now of course. He had taken a few nice pictures, but Christina needed an artist. She found what she needed in Jean-Claude, a devastatingly handsome man she met in a cafe in Paris...
...Current associate editor and future chair David B. Stevens ’03 was painfully close to a drunken dance-floor hook-up at an MIT frat party last Saturday night. A dangerously intoxicated girl spotted the raffish Stevens and started freaking him. A lusty, drunk Tabitha G. Filney ‘02 pulled her away, and yelled “get away, you thirsty slut—David deserves better.” Stevens later witnessed the same girl grinding her ass into “some total nerd’s crotch. How could she lower her standards...
...sent for a year. Her characteristic eye for detail is in full effect, and her snapshot portraits of people are often brilliantly perceptive. Of the actress Stella Adler, with whom Fox spent only a single evening, she writes, “She was refined and at the same time raffish, and her voice was full of depths and fluting melodies...
...once denounced as a terrorist by NATO - a man they'd like to put behind bars or up against a wall, although they've been forced to agree to an amnesty. Instead, the deal brokered by NATO has put him at center stage, made him a kind of raffish darling of the Western media and most importantly, handed him the political initiative in a volatile situation...
...does the current cinema possess half the wit, elan and social acuity of Hollywood in the dirty '30s. Those films were more than the sum of their smirks. They were expressions of an industry scrambling for survival, like their amoral heroes for sale, and doing it in a style--raffish, dynamic, truly adult--that we've hardly seen since...