Word: crusts
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...reach Harvard, and the temptations to strive to be "well-liked" are strong. In an atmosphere where there are more people like you--bright--than ever before, the desire to be popular is certainly present. There are final clubs to be punched, extracurricular events to be conquered and upper-crust socializing to be done. You need to know everybody in your dorm, your house and your Yard. If you don't personally know the big men on campus, you certainly need to know everything about them...
...exhibition's auto-eroticism sector does, however, include one triumphal fetish--Larry Fuente's Derby Racer, 1975. Like some pious Latino decorating a shrine, Fuente glorified a convertible jalopy with an undulating crust of shards, beads, mirror fragments and pearly gewgaws. It is still a convincing, near folk object--an automotive equivalent, perhaps, to Simon Rodia's towers in the Watts neighborhood of downtown Los Angeles...
...know you're in for something different. Ferran Adria has won the adulation of food critics and cooks by whipping up startling combinations of texture, temperature and taste: bite-size cuttlefish ravioli that explode in a burst of coconut and ginger, soft-boiled quail egg with a crispy caramel crust, a polenta of frozen powdered Parmesan cheese, almond ice cream on a swirl of garlic oil and balsamic vinegar...
There were "three hours of panic I'd made the wrong decision, that there was an East Coast upper crust that I couldn't work with," he says...
Amartya Sen's piece "Will There Be Any Hope for the Poor?" [ESSAY, May 22] rang true. The urgent inquiry is, How do we help the poor now in ways that get underneath the crust of political corruption, economic dysfunction or cultural abuse? One answer is by assisting them on a very practical and intimate basis at the local grass-roots level. For 29 years, our humanitarian organization has been providing small loans, called microcredit, to the working poor in 25 developing countries. These loans, for little or no collateral, help a poor mother start a little business...