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...wisdom of the Freshman Dean’s Office having assigned me to bunk in the penthouse of Grays middle entry with a tall, handsome, working-class and hilariously cynical white boy from Georgia. A lifelong hunter, he could hardly have seemed more different from me—a scion of the “Gold Coast” Afrostocracy of Washington. We irritated each other with occasional lapses in the tidiness that we both prized, but our late nights were never long enough for us to finish turning over the last rock of elite W.A.S.P. naivete and insincerity...
...Most of the works are from the ever-expanding collection of owners Steve Wilson and Laura Lee Brown, a scion of Brown-Forman Corp., which started bottling Kentucky bourbon and is now one of the world's biggest liquor conglomerates. "The owners' mission is to make art accessible," says William Morrow, the museum's curator. "It's amazing how many audiences there are for a project like this." Temporary exhibits change about every six months; now running (through June) is Constant World, an installation by Brooklyn-based artists Jennifer and Kevin McCoy, which combines sculpture, electronics and video...
...which T.C. Boyle imbues the enigmatic Frank Lloyd Wright in “The Women.” Boyle reveals that despite his unabashedly outrageous and callous behavior, his women throw themselves down at his feet time and again. Somehow, it’s difficult to imagine that the scion of a female Montenegrin general (one whose Turkish enemies wanted her drawn and quartered) would take the apparent demotion to “housekeeper” so sedately, but in Boyle’s world, Wright pulls this line off not once, but twice.The figure of Wright provides the punctuation...
...With Republicans holding only a two-seat margin in the statehouse, 11 of the disaffected Republicans crossed the aisle and joined the 74 house Democrats to oust Craddick from the speakership as the state legislature convened last week. The new speaker, San Antonio Republican Joe Straus, is a moderate scion of an old Republican family with ties going back to John Tower and George H.W. Bush. The Straus victory is evidence of a shift in the GOP power base as urban voters gain a larger voice. Royal Masset, a longtime Texas Republican analyst, says the GOP will continue to fare...
...century-long reign of Ford and Chevrolet as the best-selling car and truck brands in the U.S. Toyota finished the year with U.S. sales of 1,957,575 vehicles, while General Motors' Chevrolet brand sold 1,801,131. Even if the 113,904 vehicles Toyota sold under the Scion name were subtracted from the Japanese automaker's totals, Toyota still beat out Chevrolet. As recently as two years ago, Chevrolet held a commanding lead. (Read "The Bailout Report Card: From...