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...worst. A laughably messianic invitation (issued as a slab of metal bearing the restaurant's name, but with no address or other details enclosed) summoned hundreds of what one would only describe in kindness as "VIPs" to the Landmark commercial complex to toast the new branch of Rainer Becker's Knightsbridge restaurant in a suffocating, five-deep-at-the-bar ordeal. How lovely, then, to return to Zuma some months later and realize that it is not a claustrophobic hellhole of anemic heirs and glassy-eyed "It" girls: it is, in fact, a highly inviting venue with plenty of light...
...able to reassemble only about one-third of their original holdings, and yet even this remnant seems almost too rich for the blood. Madame Cézanne in a Red Armchair (ca. 1877), from Fabbri's collection, still has the power to stun that it exercised on the poet Rainer Maria Rilke at the Paris Salon in 1907. "The knowledge of its existence has transformed into an elation that I feel even in my sleep," Rilke wrote to his wife. The subject of the painting is Hortense Fiquet, Cézanne's model, who had a long secret relationship with...
...TRILOGY, Rainer Werner Fassbinder...
...policeman nobody has asked him to be. The polar opposites of isolationism and interventionism are not the only options. There is also the option of participating in world politics on an equal footing with other nations. Meanwhile, anti-Americanism is unfortunately growing where the U.S. would not expect it. Rainer Lau Brussels...
...policeman nobody has asked him to be. The polar opposites of isolationism and interventionism are not the only options. There is also the option of participating in world politics on an equal footing with other nations. Meanwhile, anti-Americanism is unfortunately growing where the U.S. would not expect it. Rainer Lau Brussels Compliments to Stengel for his editorial. Unlike the other articles in Time on the aftermath of 9/11, his was the only one that raised some fundamental questions. When violence is countered by violence, regression is fighting regression. It is a double step backward. The question is not what...