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...long ago, in fact, that I was having lunch one fine autumnal afternoon with Donald Trump at the Four Seasons. The beige and russet of his handsomely cut tweed jacket seemed to echo, sartorially, the earth tones in the wind-swept, dying grass outside the window. "I will do anything for money," he confided. "But I must have money--huge, pointlessly huge amounts of it." I still grow nostalgic when I think of that afternoon. Someday, quite soon in fact, his eternal soul will be mine to torture for endless centuries above a pit of burning sulfer...
...surfeit arises from the sheer size of the show. Its catalog lists 748 items, ranging from a corroded metal pen to a whole stained-glass lancet window from Canterbury Cathedral. It covers manuscripts, paintings, maps, jewelry, seals, coins, heraldry, enamelwork, ceramics, armor, textiles, architecture and a great deal more besides. It traces the patronage of five Plantagenet kings and has a lot to say about how works of art were commissioned by the nobility and the great merchants, executed by their makers and read by the audience. It wanders off into didactic byways and outlines, among other things, the changing...
...gathering gloom may not be apparent to the expected 17.5 million visitors to New York this year. The city's jangling geometry is still energizing, the shops tantalizing, the street life mesmerizing. But New York is like the wedding cake in a bakery window: an exquisite excess of spun sugar covering a cardboard core. Beneath Manhattan's sheen is the New York of endemic corruption, failing schools, and racial tensions, a polarized city of 7.3 million where the megarich in stretch limousines look away from the 1.8 million living in poverty, more than 50,000 of them homeless. The city...
...armored personnel carrier to mount a daybreak raid on a small house in Santa Rita, a village north of Manila. The target was Juanito Rivera, 54, allegedly the second ranking leader of the New People's Army. Rivera, fighting pneumonia, had been visiting his mother. Peering out the window, he surveyed the firepower and surrendered...
...defecated in her clothes. When a psychiatrist offered her a bag lunch, she threw it back. "Billie Boggs," she called herself, after a local television personality. She cooed over babies and hurled abuse at black men. Sometimes she sang. A favorite: How Much Is That Doggie in the Window...