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...want a keycard reader on the door to my room, just to keep myself honest. Otherwise, someday. I'll come home to find my laptop missing, and then discover it weeks later under my bed, stripped down and its parts sold for Crimson Cash. Inside the room, I want a Harvard-installed detector on my closet that slams the door on my head if I try to pick out shorts for myself when it's sunny and 12 degrees outside. Or stripes and plaids together. Or a black belt and brown shoes. Come to think of it, maybe you should...
...glad to hear those words, but I didn't actually believe them. They smacked to me of academic relativism, the sort of thing where any interpretation is valid, where the notion of "truth" is scoffed at, where a skillful (or lazy) reader can manipulate (or misinterpret) an argument, turn it on its head and still be celebrated as a conquering hero...
...Dummies and Idiot's books seem to have caught on, thanks in part to the decade's obsession with faux connoisseurship--the need to know enough about Tuscan cooking or single-malt Scotch to not be an embarrassment at parties. But the blunt titles, with a wink at the reader, are a comforting reassurance that no one who picks up these books need apologize for having to start from scratch. "Would we have been able to laugh at ourselves enough to pick a book with the word idiot in the title in any other era?" asks Lloyd Short, overseer...
...thick, warm, abiding. With eyewitness immediacy and the God's-eye view of fictive art, Morrison brought the intimate evil of slavery to life in the story of a mother's ultimate sacrifice. When Winfrey discovered the novel upon its publication in 1987, she was moved as a reader, as an African American, as a woman who suffered the death of the child she gave birth to when she was 14; for Oprah, Beloved was a central fable of her race and sex. She knew she had to produce a movie version, though she was new at that...
FIRM ART Last week came reports that two companies, Lake, a Japanese finance firm, and Reader's Digest, have decided to auction off hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of art, like the Modigliani to the right. Half of the Fortune 500 have collections of consequence. Among the largest collectors: Equitable, which owns hundreds of works, including murals by Thomas Hart Benton; Pepsico, famed for its sculpture garden with pieces by Henry Moore; Paine Webber, which has works by the likes of Willem de Kooning and Jasper Johns; Sara Lee, which just gave some of its best items to museums...