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...that distinctive element in American vulgarity that isn't vulgar-and hopes, I think, to create in Loker Commons an architecture that avoids either kitsch or Harvard-Square-trendy good taste. The space has an almost stolid we've-been-here-forever loft-like feel to it, with honest gray columns and a ceiling that have survived since a renovation close to a hundred years ago, and a profusion of robust oak benches and match boarding. This is plain living; here to stay...
Weekend Entertainment GuideThis book marks the return to the high literary intensity that Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa mastered before he detoured into public life with his unsuccessful 1990 campaign for his country's presidency. It's a welcome return, says TIME's Paul Gray. What starts as a simple murder-mystery puzzle in the Andes mountains rapidly becomes an attempt to track down, through the labyrinth of fiction, experiences that defy rational explanation. "There is a spookiness about this novel, one that is hard to convey," says Gray. "But Vargas Llosa's meticulously realistic descriptions of this high, unforgiving...
Many others, though, say the never-ending gray skies and blanket of white snow have taken their toll. For some, the weather can even lead to serious mental health problems, Catlin says...
Weather-related effects are not the only factors involved with the winter gloom. After all, the gray skies are accompanied by the end-of-semester blues...
...mayor. Formerly the all-powerful speaker of the California assembly, Brown had agonized over which of three designer suits to wear to his swearing in. He finally decided to have Polaroids taken to see which suit would photograph better. The winner: a $2,600 single-breasted charcoal-gray Brioni with a brown pencil stripe. Haberdasher Wilkes Bashford, a longtime Brown outfitter, provided the final, Caesarean touch at a preinauguration party: a wreath of laurel. "I take my job pretty seriously," said Bashford, "and I missed one accessory." The ebullient Brown...