Papers around the world are covering Day 2 of the Materazzi insult. The Times includes the leading favorite, promoted by Zidane’s brother, that Materazzi called Zidane, who is Algerian by descent, “the son of Harkis”—a slur, referring to Algerians who fought on the French side in the war of independence. But Gazzetta in Read More
Now that cutting little slits in one’s arm is the preferred form of self-mutilation, eating disorders seem almost passé. Like Balenciaga bags, everyone in New York has had one, and they’re worn fairly casually.
But what’s more curious to me is that my admission of having once been bulimic has often been met with nods Read More
Now that cutting little slits in one’s arm is the preferred form of self-mutilation, eating disorders seem almost passé. Like Balenciaga bags, everyone in New York has had one, and they’re worn fairly casually.
But what’s more curious to me is that my admission of having once been bulimic has often been met with nods Read More
The BBC apparently enjoyed yesterday’s Times story on Miller’s cabaret talents enough to pick it up, with just a little lost in translation:
“‘He’s a different type of candidate, a different type of election official,’ Mr Miller’s publicist Reggie Johnson told the BBC News website.”
The signs are there. Maybe it’s too early, but I’d suggest we’re on the verge of a new aesthetic dispensation, a tendency I’d call “The Return of the Singular.” That’s what I’m calling it, anyway. And, no, not just the “single” as in popular songs, but in literature, in film, in criticism, in thinking about Read More
Girls! How much longer can we go on worshipping movie actresses and blathering on about their borrowed gowns? I felt sure that by now the whole red-carpet thing would have lost its popular appeal and we would have moved on to pastures new.
I love to remind people-especially young, culturally illiterate people-that there was a Read More
If you haven’t been following former Clinton advisor Dick Morris’s career with the same interest we have, you’ve missed his acquiring some interesting new friends. Aside from his main gig reading Hillary’s demonic mind for the New York Post, he turned up last fall in Ukraine beside the opposition leader, Viktor Yuschenko. And Read More
