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July 10, 2000 Issue
"They're going to be remembered as the decorators who killed the golden goose."
-- Joe Schiavo, "Artful Dodgers?"
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| FEATURES | Artful Dodgers? BY RENE CHUN With the richest clients, the priciest antiques, and the best magazine layouts, designers Stephen Sills and James Huniford ruled the gilded age of irrational exuberance. But when Philadelphia multimillionaire Dennis Alter accused them of outrageously overcharging him on antiques for his castlelike estate, their tapestry began to unravel, leaving questions about their own convoluted provenance. Middle Man Meet Rick Lazio. He's a Newt Gingrich knockoff who voted to cut the Brooklyn Museum's funding in the wake of the "Sensation" exhibit, a moderate who helped save the NEA, and a Springsteen fan who differs with the Boss over his Diallo song. Wishy-washy, you say? Wishy-washy like a fox. Mouthing Off In the first act of Rebecca Gilman's Spinning Into Butter, a black student at a liberal-arts college gets a rock thrown through his window. By the second act, the unimpeachably p.c. dean wonders why some black people are "lazy and stupid." And when the play ends, the real dialogue begins. Grape Escape What do the city's top sommeliers talk about when they're off duty? Wine, of course. Especially when puckish collector George Sape dares them to put their palates on the line in a blind taste test. | GOTHAM Giving up on abstinence; biodiversity, à la carte GOTHAM REAL ESTATE Who needs to be a $6 millionaire In two years, if prices keep rising, the "average" Manhattan homeowner. GOTHAM STYLE Lighting strikes, again and again DEPARTMENTS Media In the Vivendi-Universal deal, who's taking advantage of whom? The National Interest Rush Limbaugh is steering Buchananites to Bush. But what will Gore do about Nader? MARKETPLACE A tricycle built for three; Tiffany glass Smart City A guide to TriBeCa's hottest home-design stores | Sales & Bargains BY SHYAMA PATEL Little clutches and purses with equally small price tags Net News The Web's best car classifieds THE CRITICS Mel Gibson kicks English butt Books Mario Puzo's Omerta sinks like a pair of concrete shoes Theater Kelsey Grammer's Macbeth Architecture At the Venice Biennale, old architectural forms are overturned Dance The City Ballet's downward spiral Television A&E clocks class resentment in eighteenth-century England The Underground Gourmet Tabla's homey sister restaurant CUE Classifieds |