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The Agency

Strike That Pose.

Fashion Statements

From Monday in this journal — Related news this morning — Anne Hollander, Scholar of Style, Dies at 83 By William Yardley in The New York Times , 10:26 PM…

Jazz Saint

From an obituary of a jazz pianist and host of a radio interview program on jazz — McPartland said the conversations themselves were very much like jazz, spontaneous and free-flowing. "It's so easy to…

Conversations with an Empty Chair

(Continued from 4 AM Sunday, Sept. 10, 2006 — Meet Max Black .) In memory of office chair designer Charles Pollock, who reportedly died today at 83. An image from the…

The 20

In memory of author Elmore Leonard— A graphic symbol and a search for "Nowhere"* in this journal yield… Pictorial version ​of Hexagram 20, Contemplation (View) "Cotton Mather died when…

Tale

The tale is not Thomas Nagel's remarks on philosophy summarized above, but rather the late John Hollander's remarks on Nowhere: "We all know where it is they've gone, the…