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...peer-to-peer recruitment. It's a very different methodology from the way that most people gather bodies. We kind of modeled it after an MLM [multilevel marketing plan]--like an Herbalife or a Mary Kay or an Avon." The Look-Look kids--they're known as "field correspondents"--wander the cultural landscape with digital cameras (provided by Look-Look), uploading images from parties and concerts and sporting events for the Look-Look employees--sorry, "youth-information specialists"--to pore over. (Look-Look defines kids as ages 14 to 30. "Thirty is different now," says Lee. "Thirty is really...
...quick tour around London, and you can lean across his brutalist concrete-slab tables at the DJ bar Social or wander through the jewelry boutiques he recently masterminded for Selfridge's, the once sedentary London department store that has put itself back on the merchandising map with the hip redesign of its sales floors. A few years ago, the store's managers went to him looking for someone to cast a fresh eye on their massive neoclassical flagship store. (Picture the U.S. Treasury Building stuffed with designer boutiques.) Adjaye recalls their meeting with that impish smile of his. "I said...
...would stay instead in small houses on the edges of his various compounds, changing location every eight to 10 hours and keeping an assistant on duty around the clock to pack and unpack his suitcases. Saddam, his former secretary says, so admired the fortitude of the Bedouin tribes that wander the Iraqi wilderness that he often headed into the mountains--accompanied, of course, by caravans of aides, cooks and bodyguards--to bed down among them. "He lived very simply," says the secretary. "He didn't need much...
...dancing to techno with their boyfriends at the Water Bar disco in Chinatown on a Saturday night, right next to a group of funky gay Asians, while a more mature Caucasian in black is doing Mick Jagger imitations with a tall, brush-cut young Chinese in baggy jeans. But wander over to Taboo, the must-go, packed-out gay disco on Tanjong Pagar, and you will find a bevy of gay teenagers from every race bopping on a podium in the corner and half the room full of guys with their T shirts off. It's not really a cruising...
...York’s soul is in the fluctuating mass of people that continue to wander its noisy streets and inhabit its cramped apartments. That is why, no matter how much the city’s physical shell will change, I have always been and will always be a New Yorker...