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...think about it, those disks can look like sequins or coins. Either way, for a department store, that's an apt association. But Kaplicky, a soft-spoken man with a very sober disposition, likes to cite another, very unsober inspiration, a Paco Rabanne "chain-link" dress from the 1960s. Disco fashion as the point of departure for a sizable building? Take that, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe...
...from the soft-spoken, muesli movements of the past, the migration toward austerity has the deep rumblings of a widespread shift in thought, complete with a sense of mission and hope last felt in the 1960s: motivated, demographically powerful twentysomethings, who came of age shopping at Apple and Whole Foods Market and driving a Prius, expect the companies behind their brands to be nothing less than responsible. Aware thirtysomethings, who are cash rich and credit savvy, are determined to vote with their dollars. And consumers in general, according to a recent Future Laboratory report, "are becoming ... civically motivated in their...
...cave (the French term, pronounced cahv)—from which he chooses wines for himself and House events. Like many of Harvard’s wine lovers, he was eager and garrulous when talking about his passion for wine and the highlights of his cave, ranging from late 1960s Châteauneuf-du-Pape to a group of 1982 Firestone Vineyards, “gathering a lot of dust as they...
Though Franken left Minnesota to attend Harvard in the late 1960s and later worked for decades as a comedian in New York City, he moved back to Minnesota in 2005—in part, he has said to other news outlets, to make possible a run against Coleman...
...guess is that this is unprecedented in the history of Harvard University,” said Rakoff. “I was an undergraduate in the 1960s, and I didn’t see anything like this either...