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...gained notoriety seven years ago by working as a busboy at a white country club and exposing the prejudices of its members in New York magazine. Here, instead of reporting on the foibles of the black upper crust, Graham sucks up to it, providing little more than a breathless list of neighborhoods, vacation spots and social clubs dominated by folks who can pass the "brown paper bag" test, meaning that their complexion is lighter than a grocery bag. His criteria for including an institution in the elite class are that he either belongs to it or would like...
...Wednesday, a "breathless" student called the Harvard University Police Department reporting that her laptop computer had been stolen. Just moments before, a security guard on duty reported that he had found a laptop in Sever Hall. The student and her computer were re-united...
Moviedom is filled with memorable fashion imagery--Vivien Leigh's Gone With the Wind green velvet, Audrey Hepburn's Sabrina cocktail sheath, Jean Seberg's T shirts in Breathless, almost anything Mike Myers wore in Austin Powers--but how often can articles of clothing be credited with having a performance-enhancing power akin to, say, a film's director? It happened, it seems, during the shooting of Todd Haynes' Velvet Goldmine, an homage to the David Bowie '70s and the world of men in makeup. According to Toni Collette, who played a rock-star wife, all the leopard print...
...Breathless with Anticipation...
Forget the antiquated descriptions in the Unofficial Guide or the breathless patter of the Crimson Key Society. Even a sixth-year senior will tell you that House characters have changed forever. In the wake of randomization, the stereotypes of the Houses have been shattered by waves of students who have little in common with each other or the classes that came before them...