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...thumb of a domineering mother. Like many designers, little Calvin began sewing as a tyke and was impatient with school. After a couple of dead-end apprenticeships, his future dawned with the opening of an elevator door. In 1968 he had a tiny garment-district office when a Bonwit Teller executive on his way to another floor glimpsed some coats. He ordered his assistant out of the elevator to check them out. Soon the young designer was the star of the store's young line...
Benitez does not appear to have developed a style of her own, relying far too much on the Isabel Allende school of magical realism. The frequent references to the power of Story--"In her hut, Remedios listens to someone's story, and the teller is revived"--is reminiscent of Allende's story-telling Eva Luna...
...praise for her memoir, In My Mother's House, recounting the conflict and confrontation in the relationship with her mother. But in her new work, Chernin delves into the past not only to achieve a new understanding of herself through the narrative .She acts as both a critical story-teller and a passive character. Writing 20 years later she says," "Memory is a liar, a cheat, a thief, a pirate," which distorts and creates significance out of the past. Indeed, this original approach challenges the way memory, especially memory of oneself, continuously evolves...
Tales, yarns, biographies, anecdotes, fables, government propaganda, gossip, myths, parables: stories stories. If Rafik Schami hoped to set the critics cooing over the thickly-woven narrative splendor of his first novel, Damascus Nights, he went the right way about writing it. He tells the story of a story-teller who has to have a series of stories told him by save him from a fairytale curse of dumbness which prevents him from telling stories. Do you see a theme forming" The essence of, say, a thousand night and a night of story-telling have been compressed into a single volume...
...anyone whose notions of magic are bounded on the one side by the rattle and roll of Penn & Teller and, on the other, by the glitzoramas of David Copperfield, the Jay show will seem highly unconventional, perhaps even radical. "Other magicians are more prone to showing off, to letting us see how good they are," says Jules Fisher, who did the lighting for the show and who studies magic with Jay. "But Ricky's virtuosity is hidden." The show's scale and intimacy hark back to the 19th century tradition of such masters as Robert Houdin (from whom Houdini extracted...