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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...phrasing is interesting in that it makes Chanel the woman sound like a good suit. Later, when Boy asks Etienne if he can "borrow" Coco for a few days, the way you'd ask for the loan of a sweater, our hearts sink for her. Any happiness she has seems likely to be fleeting, but he, like so much else in the film, is a provider of inspiration. His shirts, his pajamas, his own elegance will eventually be reflected in her clothing. They are emblems of him, but also hold pieces of her past; her simple life of poverty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coco Before Chanel: The Making of a Fashion Icon | 9/23/2009 | See Source »

...pain and anxiety. "If these allegations are true," says Chuck Thornton, deputy director of the ACLU of Oklahoma, "they are serious. In this day and age, it's not acceptable. Certainly, a headscarf is part and parcel of the Islamic experience." (Read "How to Reach Teens in a Recession? Ask Aéropostale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Abercrombie Faces a Muslim-Headscarf Lawsuit | 9/23/2009 | See Source »

...movie “Barton Fink,” a studio boss dresses down his star scripter: “You think you’re the only writer who can give me that Barton Fink feeling? I got 20 writers under contract that I can ask for a Fink-type thing from.” Yes, but there’s only one Barton Fink...

Author: By Jessica A. Sequeira | Title: A Word's Worth | 9/23/2009 | See Source »

Although the audience seemed captivated by the readings throughout, several spoke up to ask questions at the conclusion of the event...

Author: By Andrew Z. Lorey, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Speaker Advocates for Essays as Art | 9/22/2009 | See Source »

...Villepin denies that he sought to use the list as a way to smear Sarkozy - despite the fact that an intelligence agent he'd asked to investigate the list determined it was a forgery. Notes taken at the time by that same intelligence official suggest that de Villepin and Chirac wanted to exploit the list to undermine Sarkozy. "At no point did I ask for any investigation on any political figures," de Villepin told the press after he was questioned by investigators last year. "And at no point did I participate in any political maneuver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sarkozy vs. de Villepin: France's Trial of the Century | 9/22/2009 | See Source »

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