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...watchers who have made a living interpreting Greenspan. "Ben is crystal clear in both his writings and his speaking," says Frederic Mishkin, a friend and Columbia University economist. In Bernanke's experience, being direct works. As an 11-year-old, he won the South Carolina state spelling bee--but only after contesting a judge's ruling that he had misspelled a word. "He walked off, then came back and said, 'Excuse me, sir, but I spelled that word correctly,'" recalls his mother Edna. Sure enough, a tape recording proved him right. Bernanke's push for clarity influenced Greenspan to speed...
...however, is about as well-conceived a collaboration as “The Flintstones Meet The Jetsons;” because the two components are so similar, such a hyped-up dualism comes off as both basely exploitative and shamefully derivative.Those of us who were hoping for a Killa Bee resurrection will be sorely disappointed. After all the missteps, stabs at commercial success, and the absence of a unified production, present-day Wu-Tang sounds dilated, sluggish, and, worst of all, irrelevant. Regrettably, this album comes not to praise Wu-Tang, but to bury them...
...dabbled in costume design in high school, and has assisted with costumes for a few shows while at Harvard. He is also known for making fanciful creations for costume parties: "like, personal use, for individual friends." Whitman says that he made her a gold lamé gown for the Bee-54 party. It was through these dresses that he first won notoriety as a designer within the Harvard social scene. The women for whom he designs are extremely important to his vision. As he says, "a dress is always going to look better on a body than on a hanger...
...Remele is the head-in-the-clouds artist/academic, Whitman holds up the business end. She speaks in a clipped tone and shuttles the samples back and forth from the bedroom to the racks. A member of the Bee Club and its historian, she has attracted many of her fellow...
...politely disinvited many of the male guests to the runway show two days before, on the grounds of “the tremendous amount of RSVPs from young, fashionable ladies (potential Lewis Albert clients),” but invited them to the open-bar reception.) The entire Bee, including the punch class, was invited. Whitman seated the guests herself, seating many of the club members in the front rows...