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...invented navy blue," said Giorgio Armani. The T.V. cameras were rolling in his attic office on the via Borgonuovo as the designer was carefully describing his power position in the fashion world to Estelle Colin, a French television journalist preparing an hour-long documentary on Armani. OK, so navy blue (and also beige) do essentially belong to Armani in fashion terms, especially during his heyday in the '70s and '80s when, as he puts it, he "gave something to women who work." And his show on Monday was a success precisely because he went back to those old blues...
Pretty views, an equable climate and the fact that because St. Gallen is not a fashion mecca, the designer is not distracted by what he sees around him mean higher productivity for Albert Kriemler, who works either in his attic studio atop the old school that houses the Akris ateliers or at his desk at home, looking out onto a meadow of wildflowers and an installation he commissioned from the artist Ian Hamilton Finlay...
...degree that its hero's rewards are limited, it seems to me that, on the eve of a new football season, it is a modestly useful reminder of what this game - all our games - have lost. Just don't let it go to your head, rummaging through the attic in search of your old football shoes. They probably won't fit anymore. And if they do, they're more likely to carry you on to an ACL injury than to the Pro Bowl...
Being the youngest of five, you're adored, you're fueled with confidence. I would go to my attic; I'd record Martin Short Sings Songs of Loves Ago. I was 14. My mother, who was the concert master of the [Hamilton, Ont.] symphony, would say, "beautifully sung, a little flat here ..." Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized...
...game. The unspoken assumption of Boynton Beach Club, which is derived from an idea proposed by Seidelman's own mother, who is credited as one of the movie's producers, is that loneliness is a fate worse than - well, yes, death. It is not exactly the ghost haunting the attic of this movie's mind. It is, at best, an inconvenience to be surmounted by busy work and romantic dither. What steals over one as this movie stumbles along - it strikes the poses of comedy, without providing any laughs - is a sadness that it refuses to explore. Its characters...