The New Yorker, 2006-12-04

[fiefoe]

Unfortunately, I couldn't find John Currin's portrait of his son online. The closest find.

Prada Tokyo is well-represented, but not the one in So-Ho.

I had best luck with Julius Shulman's justly most famous photo. Extra wows.

"In Praise of Third Place" / James Surowiecki
__ companies that adopt what they call "competitor-oriented objectives" actually end up hurting their own profitability.

"Voice of the Cabal" / Marc Fisher
(Boss Fass and the slow fade of countercultural radio)

"Little Hotties" / Margaret Talbot

• (No one under eighteen is allowed into the Toy Fair.)
• a culture in which girls play at being "sassy" - the toy industry's favored euphemism for sexy
• But Barbie is now like Barney. Three-year-olds are addicted to it like crack, but all it takes is for one kid to be embarrassed and they turn on it.
  
• Calling "Mom-centricity" a "heinous disease," they remind marketers that alll they have to do is "appease" parents, not please them. 
• She added, with daffy precision, "Girls will choose princesses because they'd rather be one - technically, of all the girls in the world, let's say five to one."
  

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"String Theory" / Sasha Frere-Jones
__ the glow of a well-ordered line: "And the gathering floozies afford to be choosy and all sneezing darkly in the dimming divide"

"Mad As Hell" / Ken Auletta
__ Dobbs... admires his own capacity for compassion and self-effacement.

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