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After graduating in 1979, he headed for the Amazon and began visiting shamans, some of whom let him stay for a while as a student medicine man. He slept in thatched huts, ate delicacies like boiled rat, suffered vampire-bat bites and was nearly electrocuted by a giant eel. And he collected, as fast as he could, hundreds of plants that supplied ingredients for the shamans' medical arsenal...
...break granted to a company translates into less money for schools. Consider the consequences of that policy for the 56,000 students in the East Baton Rouge Parish school system, the state's second largest after New Orleans. Everyday, many of them face some or all of these afflictions: rat bites; roofs with holes in them; buildings whose antiquated wiring will not permit more than a few computers to work at one time; walls so damaged by water leaks that paint will not adhere to the plaster; floors so rotted that children put their feet through them; long lines...
When a single day's batch of mail includes a letter from one reader who tells us how much she "adores Joel Stein's celebrity interviews" and another from a reader who thinks Stein is "the nastiest, bitchiest, sleaziest little rat ever to scoot around the halls of TIME," you know you've got one provocative writer on your hands...
...Italian tenor) is overshadowed by the more provocative characters surrounding him. Herbert Breslin, Pavarotti's "motor-mouthed, bullet-headed, forever-tan egomaniac" publicist, adds a touch of much needed vulgarity to the usually cordial dialogue. For him, everything the press writes isn't worth "a thimble-full of rat's piss." Always mentioned in the same breath as the faltering Mr. P is the superhuman Placido Domingo (everyone's second favorite tenor.) Hoelterhoff describes Domingo's unfailing energy, which allows him to conduct a matinee performance of one opera, star as lead role in another opera that evening, then...
Duchamp, famous for the signed urinal and The Large Glass, and Joseph Cornell, not so famous for living with his mother in Queens, N.Y., and making densely intricate boxes of ephemera such as apothecary jars, photos, paper clippings and decorated wood cubes, formed a kind of pack-rat pack of two in the '40s after Duchamp enlisted Cornell to work on his portable museum, Boite-en-Valise. Cornell's collection of the trimmings--notes, receipts, old glue boxes--of their meetings forms the Duchamp Dossier and the centerpiece of this show. Neither a great Cornell nor a great Duchamp exhibition...