The New Yorker, 2008-02-11,7
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fiefoe"Eerily Composed" / Rebecca Mead
__ There are so many people with ideas about umbrellas that the Patent Office has four full-time examiners assessing their claims.
__ His mother, Myrna, a sculptor who works primarily in the medium of dried fish,
"The Birthday Party" / James B. Stewart
__ "Now that he's reached a new level of liquidity, we hope that he'll become a world-class philanthropist."
__ In 1984, just nine months after Peterson's departure, Lehman was sold for $360 million. To many, it was Schwarzman's most brilliant deal yet: he had enriched himself and his mentor while turning the tables on Glucksman and freeing himself to join Peterson in launching a new partnership.
Mark Singer: Coney's singular poem is the boardwalk, two and half elegiac herring-boned miles.
Mary J Blige: 'Grown Woman'
"European Tour" / Peter Schjeldahl
__ Observe, in the new hanging, how the later, similarly aggressive—though dashingly urbane—majesty of Manet seems to draft, like a race car, in Courbet’s slipstream. As for Monet, the concentrated array of his paintings, in context, revivifies his genius, on a level of purely visual intelligence—and of breathtaking indifference to anything else—where he stands alone in the universe.
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- Muhly has.. become a proficient student of the language, an avid user of Reykjavík’s municipal geothermal bathing facilities, and a connoisseur of local delicacies such as puffin-meat tidbits wrapped in bacon.
- “In the Renaissance, everyone was trying to negotiate a relationship with the divine,” he explains. “And there is an inherent emotional content to scientific studies, even though science is supposed to be divorced from that.”
- Muhly has an associative intelligence that is facilitated by Google and iTunes.
- “Mozart is so good at pre-Romantic notions of the night,” he says. “We all know Mahler, but with Mozart you get this kind of evening-y thing, with an awareness of light and space.”
- “There is a specific way the bass works that makes the English go crazy,” he explained. “It’s like catnip for them, so I try to take advantage of it. I love a good nineteenth-century national stereotype. It is really useful in composition.”
- (Muhly has a gift for acquaintance: “More people have met me than have heard what I do, and I am working to change that,” he says.) Mizrahi recalls, “Nico played Stravinsky’s piano version of ‘Petrushka,’
__ There are so many people with ideas about umbrellas that the Patent Office has four full-time examiners assessing their claims.
__ His mother, Myrna, a sculptor who works primarily in the medium of dried fish,
"The Birthday Party" / James B. Stewart
__ "Now that he's reached a new level of liquidity, we hope that he'll become a world-class philanthropist."
__ In 1984, just nine months after Peterson's departure, Lehman was sold for $360 million. To many, it was Schwarzman's most brilliant deal yet: he had enriched himself and his mentor while turning the tables on Glucksman and freeing himself to join Peterson in launching a new partnership.
Mark Singer: Coney's singular poem is the boardwalk, two and half elegiac herring-boned miles.
Mary J Blige: 'Grown Woman'
"European Tour" / Peter Schjeldahl
__ Observe, in the new hanging, how the later, similarly aggressive—though dashingly urbane—majesty of Manet seems to draft, like a race car, in Courbet’s slipstream. As for Monet, the concentrated array of his paintings, in context, revivifies his genius, on a level of purely visual intelligence—and of breathtaking indifference to anything else—where he stands alone in the universe.
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