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4 Jan 2008, 7:28 am
Unfortunately, I think the focus here on gentrification and racial-profiling, important as those issues are, diverts attention from the most important part of the story.Here's what Phil Bowen wrote on Changing the Court about how the process is described in Bonfire of the Vanities:"In a vivid account of the arrest, detention and arraignment of Sherman McCoy, Wolfe skillfully if luridly describes the dehumanizing process of finger printing, metal detection and being held in the… [read post]
27 Mar 2012, 9:30 am by azatty
Also see Time Magazine, Vanity Fair and The New Yorker. [read post]
7 Apr 2012, 9:15 am
Some of them "seek for worldly comfort": He who in tribulation turneth himself unto worldly vanities, to get help and comfort from them, fareth like a man who in peril of drowning catcheth whatsoever cometh next to hand, and that holdeth he fast, be it never so simple a stick. [read post]
26 Feb 2021, 10:39 am by luiza
  Once the money was out of SIB, Stanford used it to prop up vanity companies like restaurants and a cricket tournament, as well as to finance a literal high-flying lifestyle, which included six private planes. [read post]
30 May 2013, 12:37 pm by Howard Iken
  Cause you’ve given up your sanity For your pride and your vanity Turns you sad on humanity And you don’t give a da da da da da   Sometimes taking a look at music helps me make sense of the legal profession. [read post]
3 Dec 2008, 4:32 pm
She appeared on shows like “Idol Gives Back” as Cyrus, but true name recognition came with scandal: a Vanity Fair spread featuring the 15-year-old seemingly wrapped only in a bedsheet. [read post]
24 Mar 2010, 7:08 am by Michelle Wilde Anderson
Building on Nicole’s ideas, I’ll float the tentative theory that bad planning means: (1) using reconfiguration of the built environment as an excuse to curb social (and socially constructed) disorder, particularly to achieve racial or ethnic displacement (a key point of Nicole’s book), (2) cheap, shortcut versions of major architectural ideas and planning theories (like butchering Le Corbusier’s vision with the tower blocks of 1960s public housing), (3) political egotism at… [read post]
10 Apr 2010, 5:00 am by Doug Cornelius
Lewis did write a great article in Vanity Fair on Iceland’s Financial Metldown if you need a taste of his writing. [read post]
20 Dec 2011, 7:09 am by Peter
Perhaps it's human vanity, but I want to have the choice to store and share my life, before or after its biological limits are extinguished. [read post]
3 Mar 2017, 11:13 pm by Bill Otis
Vanity Fair, not known as a mouthpiece of the Republican Party, looks in detail at the allegations against Sessions and concludes:As things clear up, we may be seeing a collapsing soufflé. [read post]
29 Nov 2012, 10:16 am by Matt Van Steenkiste
Robinson Jewelers, JCPenney, Johnston & Murphy, Journeys, Justice, Kay Jewelers, Lady Foot Locker, Leather City, LensCrafters, Lids, Limited, The, Lord & Taylor, Macy’s, Men’s Wearhouse,Merle Norman,Motherhood Maternity, Naturalizer Shoes, New York & Company, PacSun, Payless ShoeSource, Perfumania, Prestige Jewelers, Ritz Camera, rue21,Sears, SoHo, Spencer’s, stride rite, Sunglass Hut, Tapper’s Gold Exchange, Teavana, Things Remembered, Torrid,… [read post]
16 May 2008, 2:17 am
why do men want trophy wife Vanity. [read post]
1 Dec 2019, 7:52 pm by Nikki Siesel
The opposer advertises its branded goods in top magazines and newspapers such as Vanity Fair, Architectural Digest, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and Forbes magazine. [read post]
30 Oct 2014, 5:28 am
The emerging middle class is apparently prepared to pay for the real thing as a matter of status or even vanity. [read post]
14 Oct 2008, 2:10 pm
"They don't understand the global nature and extent of the Internet, and how easy it is once you posted something, even if you think it's private, could become public very quickly," said John Grohol, a psychologist and publisher of PsychCentral.com.Such incidents are a symptom of a culture where sexual imagery like the infamous photo of Britney Spears' exposed crotch or Vanity Fair's seminude photos of 15-year-old "Hannah Montana" star Miley Cyrus… [read post]
26 Sep 2023, 4:07 am by SHG
” Welker’s effort “proved once again that interviewing the 45th president is an impossible task,” averred Vanity Fair‘s Molly Jong-Fast. [read post]
8 May 2014, 11:36 pm by Jeff Richardson
Kurt Eichenweld of Vanity Fair wrote an interesting article on the iPhone legal battles between Apple and Samsung. [read post]
16 Jan 2009, 10:05 am
But it reminded me of another crash that didn't end so well that is featured in a story this month in Vanity Fair, which I thought might interest readers. [read post]