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Among the defining cultural moments of the 1970s was a television commercial extolling the virtues of a new car and the fact its seats were stitched with “soft Corinthian leather”.
The car was Chrysler’s Cordoba, introduced for 1975. And the commercial that promoted Cordoba and its leather seats became an endearing symbol of the decade’s excess and sometimes false bravado.
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It’s not that Cordoba wasn’t a good car, or that it wasn’t well accepted. Indeed, it became the best-selling car for the Chrysler Corporation for the entire decade.
Art & Design|In 177 Portraits, an Artistâs Homage to His Bed-Stuy Muse
The artist Kambui Olujimi at his Long Island City studio with new works, called North Star, that combine painting and collage and conjure Black figures in a state of weightlessness. The works were partly inspired by his ink paintings of Catherine Arline.Credit.Simbarashe Cha for The New York Times
In 177 Portraits, an Artistâs Homage to His Bed-Stuy Muse
Over five years, Kambui Olujimi created paintings in tribute to Catherine Arline, a mentor from childhood on. Years after her passing, they speak more intimately than any statue could.
David Swem Branch
David Swem Branch, 84, of New Canaan, Conn., and Peconic, N.Y., passed away on Dec. 21, 2020, after a long battle with Lewy body dementia. He is remembered for his intelligence, warmth, charisma, kindness, sense of humor and readiness for adventure.
David was married for 50-plus years to Elizabeth “Betty” Branch. He was a loving and proud father of his son, Richard Frederick, and daughter-in-law, Katherine, of Wilton, Conn., and adoring “PopPop” of Abigail and Evan. He is missed by his lap cat Delilah, the latest in a long line of beloved animals that began with his childhood dog Specky. He was predeceased by his parents, Frederick VanCleft Branch and Margery Swem Branch, and his brother, Kenneth V. Branch of Merritt Island, Fla.
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In the autumn of 1974, one month shy of the publication of her new novel,
Nobody’s Family Is Going to Change, Louise Fitzhugh pulled the emergency brake. Authors rarely invoke such a costly and disruptive eleventh-hour freeze, but Fitzhugh persuaded her publishers at Farrar, Straus and Giroux that her book about a Black family in New York City was incomplete.
Stopping the presses is a rare request for any author, but for Fitzhugh, the forty-six-year-old writer of the wildly popular children’s book
Harriet the Spy, it was a radical measure entirely in keeping with her practice of telling the truth about children. When Fitzhugh said that she wrote for kids in order to do something good in “this lousy world,” she meant, this misogynist, racist, and homophobic one. As a writer of books for young readers, Fitzhugh wasn’t interested in fairy tales. Nor did she want her newest novel to simply reflect reality, she wanted her readers to be confronted and shocked by the undilute