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...story to tell." But he thought somebody needed to write about the attacks in a way that was depoliticized, stripped of ideology, of everything but pure tragedy. "So much of the reason I wrote the book was because I was tired of the tellings of [the Twin Tower bombings] having messages, having points. What I wanted was exactly to make something that didn't have a point: These are people who lost something, this is what it looks like...
...longtime Bangkok resident myself, I find the author too charitable at times. Is the city's Chatpetch Tower really a "post-modernist pastiche" of the ubiquitous Greco-Roman style? Or is it just rubbish, like so much urban Thai architecture? Sometimes, too, the urge to be exhaustive is just plain exhausting, although future social historians will thank Cornwel-Smith for recording how you toughen up a Siamese fighting fish before a bout. (Rather meanly, you "just stir the water.") Encyclopedic in scope, Very Thai is an unapologetic celebration of both the exotic and the everyday, and an affectionate reminder...
...places," says stylist Nick Steele, who has dressed Claire Danes and Radha Mitchell in Valvo's looks. Valvo, who spends four months of each year traveling to meet current and future clients, is in no danger of losing touch. "It's not like I'm in some ivory tower," he says. "There's just too much of that nonsense...
Mather’s pottery studio (in the basement of the tower) offers weekly courses, where Harvard-affiliated women in their late 20s, forward-thinking male undergraduates looking to make that perfect Valentine’s Day gift-—and anyone else who’s interested-—gather to learn braid- and pot-making from Pamela Gorgone. Enrolled students are given keys to the studio for outside of class hours, and out-of-house students can also take classes, for a small additional...
...Street Journal was calling Summers “one of the brightest and most versatile economic thinkers in academia,” while a flatteringly extensive 1991 profile in the New York Times called him “the rare economist who is equally at home in the ivory tower of pure theory and the down-and-dirty world of policy...