Forty-year-old art dealer Kenny Schachter took in the Spartan splendor of his new Greenwich Village art gallery and smiled an infectious smile. Uptown in Chelsea, and on the East Side, things were looking grim. From Mr. Schachter’s perspective, the mood reminded him of the early 90′s, when scores of galleries went bankrupt and hundreds of Read More
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The Literacy Partners cocktail party at Le Cirque 2000 on March 28 was slogging along on a damp mixture of limp handshakes, soggy crabcakes and Dewar’s when a young woman in black exclaimed: “Whoa! Isn’t that, like, um, the evilest man on Earth?”
Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger Read More
Who among us has not used connections to receive an
advantage, to win a job, admission to a school, a special favor? Will the pure
soul who wouldn’t think of it please stand up, so we can have the TV cameras
ready when heaven opens its gates to receive you? Who wouldn’t call the friend Read More
Denise Rich has yet to lose one single bugle bead from her Christian Lacroix bustier, or even to break a sweat. This saxophone-totin’ songbird is clearly a survivor, à la Richard Hatch. The multifaceted heinosity of her current situation, and the press coverage thereof, would undoubtedly have reduced a lesser mortal to a doll-gobbling shut-in. Read More
Many people know Denise Rich as the glamorous Democratic fund-raiser at the center of a furious investigation into former President Bill Clinton’s pardon of her ex-husband, financier Marc Rich. Less is known about Ms. Rich’s unscandalous but prosperous career as a lyricist and co-writer of numerous, amorously themed pop songs, from Celine Dion’s hit “Love Read More
It was surely the most trying moment in Rabbi Irving (Yitz) Greenberg’s tenure as chairman of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Several days after the pardon of fugitive billionaire Marc Rich made international news, the museum’s spokesman received a call from a reporter asking about a letter written on museum stationery in support of Mr. Read More
The toxic atmosphere thrown up by a media frenzy tends to obscure the facts and choke off dissent. In the current uproar over the pardon of Marc Rich, the opinions of very prominent individuals-people who are regularly quoted in other circumstances because of their unquestioned rectitude and authority-are being ignored. Understandably, very few of those Read More
