- September 6, 2004
- Must-See TV?
An opinionated preview of the Republican roster.
- October 21, 2002
- Taking a Chance on Amour
Director James Lapine is more at home with Sondheimian ambivalence than with pop trifles like Windmills of Your Mind. So why did French songsmith Michel Legrand pick him to stage a romantic cream puff about a man who walks through walls to get the girl?
- April 21, 2003
- Man of the World
Newsweek columnist Fareed Zakaria has the perfect intellectual pedigree (Indian-born, educated at Harvard, conservative) for a fast-changing world, and the kinds of friends in high places who can push a career into overdrive. The first Muslim secretary of State? Don’t bet against it.
- August 2, 1999
- Crazy As He Wants To Be
Before Abe Hirschfeld's trial for tax evasion (he's also accused of trying to hire a hit man to go after a business partner), a psychiatrist found him legally sane -- an opinion about which reasonable people may disagree.
- March 8, 2004
- What You Can Buy for...$500,000
What kind of property you can purchase for $500,000.
- February 24, 2003
- The Unlikely Rise of Howard Dean
The five-time governor of the Ben & Jerry's state is actually a product of Park Avenue, an outspoken critic of war against Iraq, and suddenly, a Democratic presidential force.
- February 24, 2003
- Fear Factor NYC
Neither Terror Nor War Nor Sputtering Economy Keeps New Yorkers -- For Long -- From Their Appointed Rounds.
- February 24, 2003
- Modern Dance
Once upon a time, the Quadrille Ball was the exclusive domain of the old-money elite. Now the participants are twentysomething professionals from every rung of the social ladder, with just one thing in common: a jones for the golden age of high society.
- September 8, 2002
- Behind the Music
The Philharmonic's new conductor Lorin Maazel sounds off.
- November 1, 2004
- The Assassination of a Dream
Like many of the Russian-Americans he grew up among in Manhattan, the journalist Paul Klebnikov hoped to return to his ancestral land and help restore it to great ness. Unlike most of those people, he actually got there. But last summer, on a Moscow street, his life was tragically and mysteriously cut short.
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