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...John Derian Co. The East Village boutique is a treasure trove of flora and fauna, much of it displayed with a modern wink. Elephants, right, monkeys and other wildlife stampede across a series of square decoupage glass platters. Cache pots display delicate branches, top, and a vibrant crab is the centerpiece of an oval plate, above. tel: (1-212) 677-3917; www.johnderian.com
...always been the case that cutting-edge academic work comes with a built-in payload of controversy, often with political implications. But unlike their colleagues who work with stem cells, social scientists who investigate things like Islamic fundamentalism, terrorism, and nuclear proliferation (not to mention a treasure trove of combinations thereof), are increasingly finding themselves looking down the barrel of the U.S. government’s homeland security apparatus...
...Redko - would be denounced as a counterrevolutionary. He had to proceed with extreme discretion, but over time Savitsky amassed more than 50,000 pieces of Gulag-era art, tracking them down in hiding places all over the Soviet Union and smuggling them to his desert sanctuary. Today, this trove can be experienced for a $4 entrance fee - or rather a fragment can, because there is no space to display it all. (Another fraction can be viewed at the museum's old premises nearby.) Ironically, it turned out that Savitsky had less to fear from the authorities - who came to know...
Kingsland was found dead March 21, according to The New York Sun. Acquaintances who spoke to the Sun described him as “an unending trove of historic facts of the Upper East Side” who was himself surrounded by an “air of delightful mystery.” The Sun said that “it was unclear where his primary residence was,” and that New York’s well-known Kingsland family did not believe he was related to them...
Kingsland was found dead March 21, according to the New York Sun. Acquaintances who spoke to the Sun described him as “an unending trove of historic facts of the Upper East Side” who was himself surrounded by an “air of delightful mystery.” The Sun said that “it was unclear where his primary residence was,” and that New York’s well-known Kingsland family did not believe he was related to them...