What Money Can’t BuyJocelyne Wildenstein and her husband, Alec, scion of the world’s richest art family, believed that beauty was for sale. Now the bill has come due.
ByEric Konigsberg
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One Brief, Scuzzy MomentRecalling the East Village art scene and the (infinitely cooler) neighborhood that it eclipsed.
Hollywood’s Brat PackThey’re Rob, Emilio, Sean, Tom, Judd, and the rest—the young movie stars you can’t quite keep straight. But they’re already rich and famous.
The War Against NixonGloria Steinem on the backlash in the days after the Kent State shootings.
ByGloria Steinem
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More Hot-Weather SpecialsGloria Steinem introduces a new abbreviation, neither Mrs. nor Miss, in this 1970 column. “How do you pronounce ‘Ms.’?”
ByGloria Steinem
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Getting Rich Off WelfareIn this story from the January 18, 1971, issue of New York, Gloria Steinem writes about the grim state of welfare services in New York City.
ByGloria Steinem
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Sisterhood“These deep and personal connections of women often ignore barriers … all the barriers that, in male or mixed society, seem so difficult to cross.”
ByGloria Steinem
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The Death and Life of Truman Capote“My life is so strange — it’s not like anybody else’s,” Capote said. And it wasn’t — his friendships and feuds were more intense, his talent greater.
Tom Wolfe’s Worldview Came Into Focus In New YorkThe new documentary “Radical Wolfe” captures a singular writer whose story is bound up with our own—as you can read in his freshly-digitized archive.
ByChristopher Bonanos
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The Ultimate Power: Seeing ’Em JumpThe exercise of power brings rewards beyond merely controlling policy or money. To many, the ultimate reward is that of getting people to jump.
The True Story Behind The Good NurseBehind bars, Charles Cullen can no longer take life, yet he’s found a way to give it — in the form of an organ transplant.
