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Will flying the PLO flag from a window be considered "intimidating" conduct to Israeli students" Will a prochoice rally that makes use of hangers dripping in red paint be intimidating to pro-lifers? How will the line be drawn between what is personally or politically offensive and what is objectively intimidating and discriminatory...
...interview is over, the heaviness of memory lifts, and / Zlata's inner teenager slowly begins to emerge. As writer and company stroll up Fifth Avenue, Zlata, fixated on supermodels, eyes a new book by fashion photographer Arthur Elgort in a store window. Christy Turlington, her favorite supermodel of all, graces the cover. When there is talk of lunching at the Royalton hotel -- which houses New York's famously soigne publishing-world eatery, 44 -- Zlata asks, beaming, "Is that where the models are?" But her giddy, girlish mood is dampened when the French publishing liaison, assuming a Naomi Wolf-ish posture...
Certain telltale signs herald the coming of spring each year. That crazy bird that signs outside your window at 5 a.m. returns. Buds appear on the trees as the river thaws. But one day stands out above all others--the day that pitchers and catchers report...
...days after a suit against him alleging sexual abuse has been withdrawn. He has got calls from the Pope and the First Lady on his red phone, the only dash of color in the severely plain room. He turns away from his marble conference table to point at the window he looked out on the day before the suit was filed last November. He remembers seeing a few reporters huddled below near the canopy of the Barclay hotel, peering up at his office. Every time he glanced down, there were more of them until, like the birds in Alfred Hitchcock...
...hour or two of celluloid I sat through with a bunch of weird-looking film critics at a special screening of "The Chase" last week: not when a truck-load of corpses spilled onto the highway, creating "mass havoc," not when the heroine "comically" vomited out of her car window; not when Anthony Kiedis and Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers made a dorky cameo; not even when the two protagonists, a kidnapper and his hostage, had sex in a speeding car with thirty cops on their tail. No, it was none of these things; it was when...