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invitation to the dance; An internship at the Costume Institute under the oracular Diana Vreeland introduced the author to the art of extravagant gestures.
Byline: Andrew Solomon
When I graduated from high school in 1981, the Metropolitan Museum of Art hired me for an internship. A few days after I began, I was in the office of the woman who had selected me, and saw the note I had sent her after our interview hanging on her pinboard. She said, "You know, there were over a hundred applicants for this job, and given that you're mostly going to be proofreading and xeroxing, I thought you were all pretty well qualified. But that stationery happens to be my favorite shade of blue, so you got the job."
My desk was at the back of the department library, and there was a nail sticking out of the wall above it, ...
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