friday, august 27, 2010 GALLERIES
Summer fun At Carroll Square and Cross MacKenzie, interesting shows with wild worldviews tide art enthusiasts over until fall. C4
Style ABCDE C S CAROLYN HAX
Adoption awareness Daughter plans to give up her baby, and Mom has concerns. C5
BOOK WORLD It’s all in his head
Son of shrinks writes a fond family memoir. C3 THE RELIABLE SOURCE “
RNC veteran orchestrates
Coral
own outing Ambinder: Given evidence, Mehlman’s homosexuality
would have been news years ago by Howard Kurtz
Marc Ambinder, the political junkie who writes for the Atlantic, says he suspected, like lots of insiders, that Ken Mehlman was gay. In fact, years before the former Republican
Party chairman acknowledged his sexuality to Ambinder in an interview published Wednesday, the reporter tried to find out. And, says Ambin- der, he would have outed Mehlman if he had evi- dence.
“I would have reported it because he was in power at a time when the Republican Party was whipping up anti-gay sentiment to get votes,” Ambinder says in an interview. “I’m very squeamish about outing anyone. That squeam- ishness certainly would have gone into the equa- tion. But there would have been a clear and com- pelling reason. Even though outing would have encroached on his personal dignity, which would have made me uncomfortable, it would have been the right thing to do to hold someone in power accountable.” The scoop was essentially handed to Ambin-
der. Mehlman, displaying the political acumen of the man who ran George W. Bush’s reelection campaign, assembled a team of friends and ad- visers to manage his coming out. One member of the team approached Ambinder several weeks ago to gauge his interest in the story. Mehlman told Ambinder that it “has taken me 43 years to get comfortable with this part of my life” and that he wants to become an advocate for same-sex marriage. Ambinder, 32, who is also CBS’s chief political consultant, is a classic behind-the-scenes guy
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Olive Green
A lot of people think they can’t wear it, but it’s actually a universal color.
Everybody cries about sexism that is blatant,
but the sins of omission no one
notices.” — Lynette Long, advocate for Amelia Earhart statue. C2
3@washingtonpost.com/discussions Lisa de Moraes takes your questions about the drama, comedy and heartbreak of the world of television in this special Emmy Awards preview. 1 p.m.
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SHE’S THE EXPERT: Stacy London, of “What Not to Wear” fame, is one of the co-founders of Style for Hire. Last month, she trained a group of prospective stylists for the site.
Maybe it can be taught
Peach MARK THIESSEN/ASSOCIATED PRESS
UPSETTER? The support Joe Miller, left, received in the primary is a testament to the influence Sarah Palin wields in her home state.
The result is in: Palin still holds sway in Alaska
by Jason Horowitz
wasilla, alaska — On a recent afternoon here, Karen Adams wheeled a shopping cart packed with meat, pineapples and cereal boxes around a supermarket as she talked about Sarah Palin’s presence in Alaska. “I used to see her all the time,” said Adams, 34, who proudly voted for Palin as mayor and then governor and still regularly bumps into Palin’s parents at the post office. “I don’t see her these days.” Palin may have withdrawn from official life in Alaska, but the surprisingly strong showing in Tuesday’s GOP Senate primary by Joe Miller, the long-shot candidate she backed over Lisa Mur- kowski, made it clear to the entire country that she still exercises great influence in her home state. This matters for Palin’s aspirations outside Alaska, too.
Alaska is central to the political imagery, folk- sy charm and outsider credentials. In her intro- ductory speech to national politics during the
palin continued on C3 Brown Yellow
Earthy colors best flatter
yellow, peach, golden, golden brown, ivory or reddish skin tones.
Green Orange
In a city ambivalent about fashion, Web site recruits style mavens to connect with the masses by Robin Givhan
f you think you know the difference between turquoise and sapphire, you don’t know the half of it. Unless you are the sort who keeps a Pantone color chart in your dressing room — indeed, unless you are the sort who has even heard of fashion’s favorite color-consulting firm — chances are pretty good that you have not given much thought to the way these two shades of blue offset shades of red. This matters because if you have a ruddy complexion, a sapphire shirt might be just the thing to tamp down the excessive pink in your cheeks. But if your skin has yellow undertones — and you know what undertones are, right? — then turquoise could be a bad choice because it could make you appear sallow, even jaundiced. These may sound like trivial matters in the grand scheme of life. But in our mun- dane, day-to-day lives, when we are not thinking existential thoughts but just trying to make a good impression during, say, a business meeting, this sort of information can come in handy. But alas, it’s not the kind of knowledge that one acquires in high school or college. It
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isn’t laid out in Vogue or Harper’s Bazaar, where readers are given the scoop on the seasonal trends and then sent forth to incorporate them into their wardrobe like fash- ion savants. Stylists — those mysterious architects of dazzling red-carpet moments —
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