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...uptown Manhattan, perched on a sofa in his sumptuous apartment, with its housekeeper and its blue baby grand and its views of Central Park, Wolfe in person is a sharp contrast to his personality on the page. His prose bristles with italics and exclamation points and repetitions--repetitions!--for emphasis, but Wolfe himself speaks softly, slowly and a little hoarsely, with the ruins of a long-ago Virginia accent. He has always been dapper, but now he is a dapper old man. His appearance is not so much wolfish as avian: his frame is slight, his nose hooked and beaky...
...right, Russia's most-wanted man is hiding only a few kilometers away. Perhaps in the hamlet of Dargo, about 10 km to the east; or in Ersanoi, just up the road; or even right here in Dyshne-Vedeno itself, within sight of the ruins of his once sumptuous red-brick house, blown up by the Russians in 2000. The Kremlin says it has launched a massive manhunt for Basayev, the Chechen guerrilla leader who has orchestrated a grisly terror campaign that includes, among other atrocities, hijackings, suicide bombings, the 2002 Moscow theater siege and the seizure last month...
DIED. GEOFFREY BEENE, 77, one of America's most original fashion designers; of complications of pneumonia; in New York City. The Louisiana native first landed on Seventh Avenue in the 1950s and started his line in 1963, raising the standards of American design with technical innovations, sumptuous fabrics and minimalist creations whose streamlined silhouettes belied their complicated construction. He dressed numerous First Ladies and socialites, including Pat Nixon, Lady Bird Johnson and Gloria Vanderbilt, and was widely admired for his facility with cut and his uncompromising creative vision. He created the playful baby-doll dress in the 1960s...
Ideal Date: She would pick me up, and whisk me away to my favorite brasserie. After feasting like there is no tomorrow, we would then go my favorite patisserie where we would indulge in nothing but each other’s sumptuous visages...
DIED. GEOFFREY BEENE, 77; one of America 's most original fashion designers; of complications from pneumonia; in New York City. The Louisiana native first landed in Manhattan in the 1950s and started his line in 1963, raising the standards of American design with technical innovations, sumptuous fabrics and minimalist creations whose streamlined silhouettes belied their complicated construction. He dressed numerous First Ladies and socialites, including Pat Nixon, Lady Bird Johnson and Gloria Vanderbilt, and was widely admired for his facility with cut and his uncompromising creative vision. He created the playful baby-doll dress in the 1960s and the sporty...