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...with the rise of English studies—which isn’t to blame the [universities], of course.” Wood doesn’t ascribe to the “anti-intellectual schtick” of writers like Gore Vidal or Saul Bellow—he sees his year-long guest lectureship at Harvard as a chance to broaden the horizons of many undergraduates...
...hype, make sure you get Giuliana for highlights or Marisol’s Aveda treatment. The Carriage House Salon on Church Street specializes in a cut for curly hair called the Ouidad cut. On Newbury Street, a princess’s spiritual home, go to Laurel Elliott at Vidal Sassoon for color, and Mario Russo Salon and Salonpini for cuts. At Leonard Stephen’s, says one princess, “I go to Lenny himself. The cut’s amazing, and it’s fairly inexpensive. $50—I mean, we’re talking...
...mouth." Ice wines originated in the 1790s when workers in the Franconian region of Germany tried to salvage grapes frozen in an early frost. One of the newest producers is Canada, whose nippy Niagara Peninsula provides the perfect microclimate for growing--and freezing--ice wine's Riesling, Vidal and Seyval grapes. Canadian production of ice wine has skyrocketed from 96,000 bottles in 1993 to nearly a million in 2001. Wine lovers have to pay extra to get this cool taste. On average, because of the exacting processing, ice wines run $45--for just half a bottle. --By Janice...
...error. It's one thing to read about the "grisly" car accident that killed and decapitated Katy Dos Passos, the wife of Wilson's longtime friend John Dos Passos, in one footnote, but stating the same gory fact in three different footnotes seems a bit like overkill. Gore Vidal, however, might be pleased to know that the editors have seen fit to knock four years off his age (he was born in 1925, not 1929). They also have Wilson referring to Ulysses S. Grant's "Personal Memoirs" under the title "Personal Veracity." Did they misread Wilson's notoriously crabby handwriting...
...interview to the next) on American atrocities from Vietnam (which, in his opinion, "began as a U.S. attack against South Vietnam, which was always the main target of the U.S. wars," - a statement that would have been news to Ho Chi Minh) to Nicaragua and Sudan, among others. Unlike Vidal, however, Chomsky is not concerned with the possibility of civil liberties in the U.S. being eroded in the aftermath of 9-11 ("I do not think it will lead to a long-term restriction of rights internally in any serious sense," he says. "The cultural and institutional barriers to that...