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...Golden Age, the sequel to 1998's Elizabeth, costume designer Alexandra Byrne has hatched the most lavish and rarefied survey of the period. Elizabeth's court was, to be sure, far more elaborate than that of her predecessors: she had a handmaiden whose sole purpose was to retrieve errant jewels that detached from the Queen's gowns. Byrne searched for visual cues in seminal books like Janet Arnold's Queen Elizabeth's Wardrobe Unlock'd, a recent Elizabethan exhibition at London's National Maritime Museum and Balenciaga's designs from the 1940s, which referenced 16th century Spanish court painting...
...Those games really are life or death,” Hahn said. The Crimson will use this weekend’s trip to Los Angeles to fine-tune its skills and develop as a team before kicking off its Ivy season in early October. —Staff writer Alexandra J. Mihalek can be reached at amihalek@fas.harvard.edu...
...clock wound down. “It was crucial in the end that [Hahn] was solid, and he did a great job,” Kerr said. “He’s been doing a great job all year.” —Staff writer Alexandra J. Mihalek can be reached at amihalek@fas.harvard.edu. —Staff writer Julia R. Senior can be reached at jrsenior@fas.harvard.edu...
...second half. “A lot of my job is helping out the defense,” Hahn said. “I think especially in the last 20 minutes of the game I stepped up and played pretty well.” —Staff writer Alexandra J. Mihalek can be reached at amihalek@fas.harvard.edu...
...Back in July 1918, Lenin feared that the deposed Emperor Nicholas would re-emerge as a rallying symbol for anti-Bolshevik forces and secretly ordered the entire family executed. The Emperor, the Empresses Alexandra, Alexei and his four sisters, lovingly called "OTMA" by the family - Olga, Tatyana, Maria, Anastasia - all were brutally shot in the basement of the Ipatyev House in Yekaterinburg, where they were kept in exile. The bodies were thought to be covered in sulphuric acid and buried in secret graves nearby. They were exhumed in 1991, but two were missing - the boy and one of the girls...