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Maurizio Viel cheerfully admits that he has had a nose job and gets regular botox injections to erase the wrinkles from his tanned face. But then Viel, 41, and his twin brother Roberto are plastic surgeons who operate the London Centre for Aesthetic Surgery. And while Maurizio is a walking advertisement for the benefits of modern cosmetic surgery, their clinic needs no promoting. Business, they say, has doubled since...
...Roberto Calasso’s first work translated into English, the brilliant Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, saw him marking out his territory as somewhere between the literary anthropology of Robert Graves’ classic The White Goddess and the mythology-blender of Joseph Campbell’s Hero with a Thousand Faces. The Calasso of Literature and the Gods is a little closer to Goddess than Hero, as he attempts to trace through all of Western literature, from Homer to Nabokov, a phenomenon that he defines called “absolute literature.” Absolute literature is literature...
...Roberto Calasso...
...Roberto Clemente died before I was born; I don't have much experience dealing with the passing of hometown legends. So when I learned that Stargell had died Monday morning after a long battle with kidney disease, I was at something of a loss. Am I fit to accurately remember a man who played his greatest seasons when I was in grade school...
...Three Rivers with great pleasure. My family - or more often, my father, my brother and I - would pile into the car, make the quick trip downtown, and park just across the river from the stadium, where we'd walk across the Fort Duquesne bridge, past the statues of Roberto Clemente and Art Rooney...