Word: amateurness
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...anymore; it's about style, which is why the glossy fashion magazine W featured Christian Dior clothes with Vans sneakers in its February issue. It's also why high-end labels such as Gucci and DKNY intend to win over fans by peddling shoes that look perfect for the amateur athlete and are priced for the full-time debutante. Prada, for example, has a line of sneakers, made of canvas with tread soles and laces, that still sport the Prada logo. So who cares if they offer little boost on the basketball court...
...fishing port of Berlevag is about as far as you can get from anywhere, perching on the Barents Sea above the Arctic Circle in Finnmark, Norway's northernmost county. Despite the remote location and frozen terrain, Berlev?g has something to warm hearts across much of Europe - a 30-man amateur choral ensemble starring in a poignant and quirky film called Heftig & Begeistret, or Cool & Crazy...
Under the aegis of American Repertory Theatre Artistic Director Robert Brustein, the talented cast and crew offer a sophisticated insight on this sometimes vulgar Darwinian battle between the sexes. The Captain (Geordie F. Broadwater ’04), is the titular father, a career army man and respected amateur scientist, driven to insanity by his wife Laura (Catherine B. Gowl ’02) as she schemes to obtain control over their daughter Bertha’s education. Laura plant seeds of suspicion in the Captain’s mind about the true paternity of Bertha and about his very...
Hallström grew up on film in the 1950s. In that time "before television," he watched Charlie Chaplin flicks and documentaries by his father, an amateur filmmaker. At 10, he made his first movie, The Ghost Thief, a three-minute thriller on 8-mm film. As a teen, he took his camera everywhere, and his precocity later landed him work in TV, which "was my film school," he says. "I worked the cameras and I edited," mostly on music shorts for Swedish television. Gradually, Hallström shifted his focus from the small screen...
...Harvard captain is a man after Bill Cleary’s own heart. Cleary, Harvard’s former athletic director and lover of all things amateur athletics, hated specialization among young athletes. During his recruiting days as Harvard hockey coach, Cleary was famous for cherishing the multisport stars and the all-around athletes...