Word: armchairs
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...Palazzo Strozzi has been able to reassemble only about one-third of their original holdings, and yet even this remnant seems almost too rich for the blood. Madame Cézanne in a Red Armchair (ca. 1877), from Fabbri's collection, still has the power to stun that it exercised on the poet Rainer Maria Rilke at the Paris Salon in 1907. "The knowledge of its existence has transformed into an elation that I feel even in my sleep," Rilke wrote to his wife. The subject of the painting is Hortense Fiquet, Cézanne's model...
...tall young man scans the white sheets taped to the window, then briskly walks away. Another girl lingers, her brow furrowed as her eyes trail down the register. On the other side of the glass, a disappointed student collapses into an armchair, course guide in hand. “Do you think I should e-mail them? Do you think that would help?” he asks his friend, who looks doubtfully back at him. “I guess I’ll have to start all over again,” he mutters, leafing anxiously through...
...networking technology goes, wireless Internet, or wi-fi, is hard to beat: it enables you to surf the Web from your living-room couch or send e-mail from a coffee-shop armchair. The trouble is that wi-fi's range only extends a few dozen meters, so once you leave home-or when it's closing time at your neighborhood Starbucks-you're back in the Stone Age. Logging on through commercial wi-fi hotspots can also be cumbersome and expensive. But a Spanish company, FON, wants to change all this. Founded 15 months ago, FON touts itself...
...years pundits excoriated young black kids for attacking other smart successful black kids by questioning their blackness. But this is suddenly permissible for presidential candidates. Beinart's good black/bad black dynamic is the sort of armchair logic that comes from not spending much time around actual black people. As the New Republic points out, Sharpton has an overstated following among black people. In 2004, when Sharpton ran for President, his traction among his alleged base was underwhelming. In South Carolina, where almost half of all registered Dems were black, both John Kerry and John Edwards received twice as many black...
...lifted America's spirits during the Great Depression and went on to become a beloved international star. Mickeymania inspired books, toys, watches and countless other items, many of which are pictured in Mickey Mouse Memorabilia: The Vintage Years 1928-1938 (Abrams; 180 pages; $27.50). Whether happily dozing in an armchair that is the base of a lamp or merrily dancing with his Minnie atop a toy piano, Mickey is the sturdy little guy we recognize in all of us: the mouse as Everyman...