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...also helps that she's funny and exuberant, salting her conversation with north Georgia expressions that cannot be published in a family magazine. Shannon does some of her best work in biker bars and other places where she can meet her sources-from both sides of the law -- without their being spotted...
When Plaks, Bach sheet music in hand, quietly crept in to the room in which I was interviewing his roommates, I asked him if he, a non-biker, felt some-how lesser or insecure while living with such avid motorcycle men. He said that he didn't feel lesser. In fact, he plans to get a bike of his own. Simply the influence of his roommates? "Well," Plaks explained, "People have no personality. You need something to know...
...supposed to stride around in stiletto heels, fishnet stockings and microminis -- some of which Vogue featured in colorful versions of rubber and polyvinyl chloride. The same style dominated the spring collections shown in Paris and Milan last month. There were front-slit short skirts from Karl Lagerfeld, gold-mesh biker shorts from Gianfranco Ferre and rhinestone-studded hot pants from the team of Dolce & Gabbana, who acknowledged that their D&G line had been inspired by Jodie Foster's preteen streetwalker in Taxi Driver. Vulgarity, it seems, reigns on the runways...
...Vogue. Marxism these days has appeal "in an odd sort of retro-manner," says Jedediah S. Purdy '97, an editor of Perspective who has studied Marx. "One might use the fashion metaphor that it is equivalent to showing up at a party in your '71 easy rider biker gear. It's a cachet of anachronism...
...perhaps even more striking than each woman's differences are their similarities: every biker Stone interviewed for the film conveys a calm self-assuredness, a relaxed sense of autonomy, and a vehement desire to feel wind in her hair. These women have their multi-faceted lives in perspective. Stone pays them respect for challenging, every time they take to the road, a stupid stereotype that has thoroughly permeated American culture. The movie aims to inspire, and inspire she does. The spirit of independence infused into the ride is both arresting and encouraging. Stone's wide shots of entire communities...