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Literature held its meeting in a narrow, coffin-like room in the Boylston Hall basement where prospective concentrators got a sample thesis proposal packet as well as the requisite handbook. In its Science Center office, history and science provided a comfortable sofa and chairs for 10 or so interested first-years. But the Chinese takeout whose odor wafted from an office room was not for students but faculty only. Religion held its meeting in a Barker Center classroom; again, no food...
...Richter was a lot more than sofa ballast. Where other talk-show sidekicks once grinned and fed the boss straight lines, the acerbic Richter was an integral, almost equal partner, doing comedy bits and zany reporting segments on the road. Over seven years, he took that most emasculating of show-biz roles and gave it something like dignity. (Even if he once had to streak onto the Today show set in flesh-colored underwear as a prank for Late Night.) "Sometimes we'd have an older guest who wasn't too familiar with the show," remembers O'Brien...
...house full of fussy, formal furniture. "Growing up, we had cane-backed dining-room chairs that really weren't comfortable," says Gold. "We couldn't have a dog. We weren't even allowed to sit in the living room." That helped him appreciate the pleasures of an overstuffed sofa. He met Williams in 1986 in New York City, where Gold spent six years as a furniture buyer for Bloomingdale's and Williams worked as a graphic designer for Seventeen magazine. They both saw the same opportunity: a stuffy furniture industry just waiting to be turned upside down...
...have been not taking out his brand earlier. Plagiarism is epidemic in the furniture industry, and there are few designers who haven't borrowed, if not stolen, from his work. But, as is not the case with Chanel perfume or Rolex watches, few people care whether their slipcovered sofa is an authentic Mitchell Gold or a knockoff, and that could hurt him. Nonetheless, there's no arguing with his influence: he is everywhere. Walk into any hipster apartment from New York City to Nashville, Tenn., and you will see his work, or at least his influence. "I do think about...
...within seven years, their marriage was in decay. Though they would hold things together while their children, David and Sarah, were growing up, both of them were finding companionship elsewhere. For a while Margaret found some with actor Peter Sellers. She reportedly seduced him on the drawing-room sofa at Kensington Palace...