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...machine, you just don’t pretend [to know what you’re doing].” He brags that, though he forgot to put the bed back in his room at the end of the year because he left school early to attend the Truman Scholars Leadership Week, he was not fined. Nor did he get in trouble for painting his room in sky blue, white and royal blue. “It was very Martha Stewart, though she would probably disagree...
Among other honors, Steiner serves as a fellow of the British Academy, is a recipient of France’s Legion of Honor and the Truman Capote Lifetime Achievement Award, and has been named an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences...
...citizens as well as aliens, encompassing people not even charged with crimes, much less convicted. Bush would eavesdrop unilaterally, without any O.K. from a judge. Nothing in Congress's recent antiterrorism legislation authorizes this unprecedented regulation; indeed, leading lawmakers were not even consulted. The Executive unilateralism here recalls Harry Truman's seizure of steel mills in 1952 to guarantee supplies for the Korean War. In a landmark decision, the Supreme Court ruled against Truman because Congress had pointedly declined to authorize such seizures...
...fame. Her failure to revive her modeling career leads her to alcoholism, a sort of selective amnesia and depression. Desperate to attain her dream, Charlotte signs on to a new commercial venture best described as the Internet version of “The Real World” or The Truman Show. As the project takes on a life of its own, nurtured by the public’s insatiable appetite for intimate, “real” knowledge of people, her story merges with that of the other characters, and all of their individual motivations and actions are overshadowed...
...white contrast. Although Huene was clearly a great influence on Horst, Huene’s career peaked in the 30s, while Horst continued to photograph well into the 80s. Horst’s photographs are of everyone from Gary Cooper, Rita Hayworth and Steve McQueen to Jacquelin Kennedy, Truman Capote and Calvin Klein. As such, Horst influenced the culture of fashion for over five decades...