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...have had--a sexual relationship in his whole life; nor did he ever do a painting of a nude. His sensuality was wholly visual and confined to the surface of things--the confused glitter of light on a Venetian canal, the rumplings of fabric, the porcelain skin of an upper-class face. The sexiest picture in this show is Two Girls in White Dresses, circa 1909-11. (It is actually one girl, his niece, painted twice, lying on an Alpine hillside.) Except for the faces, not an inch of skin is visible. They are completely swaddled in cotton and cashmere...
Results of the Housing lottery--in which students were randomly placed into one of the College's 13 upper-class Houses--were distributed yesterday around 9 a.m. to the self-designated "captains" of student blocking groups...
Kureishi's ambitions and concerns seem modest, however, when held up against those of John Taylor. Though Taylor's milieu is as precious as Kureishi's--middle- to upper-class professionals and intellectuals, this time of the Manhattan variety--Falling, about Taylor's own divorce, manages to embrace, if not resolve, some of the questions gripping many Western societies: Is staying married always good? Is divorce always bad? What's best for the children? How, in the face of personal unhappiness, does one set one's moral compass...
Applications for upper-class students to transfer among the Houses were due yesterday afternoon at the 12 House offices...
...ages. A delicious, brilliantly crafted example of how a movie can entertain, move and impress without sacrificing wit and intelligence. In a play-within-a-play, Joe Fiennes plays Shakespeare as an ill-fated Romeo trying to woo his upper-class Juliet (Gwyneth Paltrow). What prevents this familiar tale from degenerating into cliche is its self-awareness--it's a fulfilling romance and a sharp comedy. And a luminous Paltrow glowingly convinces why she is worthy of the greatest mind of all time...