Vogue Paris Gave Their 22-Year-Old Cover Star Wrinkles

Source: Styleite

Enjoyed Jemma Kidd‘s eyeliner advice this week but looking for a little less cat-eye and a little more crow’s feet? Vogue Paris has the answer! Dior‘s resident makeup guru Yadim made up 22-year-old model Karmen Pedaru for the June/July 2012 swimwear supp ...
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Crash courses

Source: The Hindu

I have this theory that George Lucas is responsible for Liam Neeson's late-career transformation into what a gossip-rag hack might term “the thinking man's action star.” (The furiously entertaining Jason Stat ...
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Why Does The New Yorker Run So Many Desert Island Cartoons?

Source: The Atlantic

The desert island cartoon is one of those clichés we'd never thought to analyze too deeply until we read a smart cartoonist doing so, and now we're fascinated. New Yorker cartoon editor Bob Mankoff discussed the genre with ...
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A Guy, a Palm Tree, and a Desert Island: The Cartoon Genre That Just Won’t Die

Source: Vanity Fair

You’d think by now, in a world equipped with G.P.S. and Google Earth, cartoonists would have wrung every last drop of humor from the premise of castaways marooned on desert islands. After all, they seem to have fina ...
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Our friends in the north

Source: 3AM Magazine

In the summer of 2011, when it emerged that Basildon council had rejected offers from the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to broker a deal with Dale Farm residents, for some, the prejudice and discrimination that has fo ...
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Jonathan Franzen and the Problem of Sympathy in 'Farther Away' (Review)

Source: PopMatters

“To consider [Edith Wharton] and her work is to confront the problem of sympathy. Privilege like hers isn’t easy to like; it puts her at a moral disadvantage,” novelist Jonathan Franzen wrote in the February 2012 anniversary ...
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One Ocean Seven Seas Sail The World: 4 days to go

Source: Sail Blogs

It's nearly time to leave and things are getting tense. it's not the first time we have left anywhere but it is the first time we have done it alone together and such a huge trip. Our plan is to sail from here Hong Kong to Gibraltar in les ...
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Now Booking | New Hotels in Chile

Source: The New York Times

Earthquake-prone Chile has enough moxie in the bank to attract big name hotels like W and new Patagonian powerhouses like the Singular Hotel and Tierra Patagonia. But these splashy openings shouldn’t obscure the arrival of a bevy ...
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Hideo Kojima: video game drop-out – interview part 1

Source: Guardian Unlimited

Six months after Hideo Kojima joined Konami, one of Japan's most respected video game studios, he was asked by a university friend to be best man at his wedding. "The groom stood up to introduce me. He said: 'Welc ...
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