The New Yorker, 2006-07-03

[fiefoe]

"Dept. of Hoopla: History Girls" /  Rebecca Mead
__ Brown, whose magazine (Cosmo) might in its heyday have been characterized as being for the generation born to get laid

"Postscript: Barbara Epstein" / David Remnick
__ The rest of the editorial staff, like the court of a small duchy, has always been very loyal and unimaginably small.

"Un-American Activity" / Jeffrey Toobin
__ Jan Koller... no one has quite the same combination of graceful athleticism and lurid menace
__ The English knew that they weren't supposed to like the Iranians, but German Pilsner had dulled their geopolitical instincts. "Fuck the I.R.A.!" they chanted at the baffled Persians.

"The Absolutist" / Judith Thurman
__ an ugly baffle of condominiums
__ the terror of failure and exposure inherent in virtuosity
__ Ghesquière endowed them with an exotic buoyance - like that of anime - and he reminded his audience that modernity in dress reflects the sense of dislocation which defines modern life.
louche, epicene, Giacomettis

"Life of the Party" / Adam Gopnik
__ (Disraeli's) gold chains, worn many at a time, were a wonder, his lacquered black curls an event.
__ He's himself proof, in slightly comic form, of the principle of heroic imagination that he fabulized so passionately in his fiction.
__ the proto-Wilde "Nothing is of so much importance and of so much use to a young man entering life as to be well criticized by women"
__ Disraeli' English history was ...a kind of "Ring" cycle designed for Bertie Wooster

"Westword Ho!" / Joan Acocella
__ In the world of this ballet, to be born is to start dying. The wedding is just when you get the news.

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