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Friday, June 24, 2005
ANNALS OF TV-AVERSIVES UD, as longtime readers know, does not own a television. Like a number of other tv-aversives, she has a dvd player for movies. As one of a rare breed, she finds it interesting to keep track of other tv-aversives. One is featured in today’s New York Times: A selective polymath, Ms. Lerner has, since being forced out of Cisco in 1990 after feuds with the company’s chief executive, started and sold a cosmetics company (Urban Decay), read Jane Austen compulsively, schooled herself in the ways of Colonial farming, studied the history of costume, made period ball gowns, collected books on 18th-century typography, and perfected her Regency dancing. “I can dance in five centuries and two sexes,” she said. |