Word: calvin
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...with their follow-up. A considerably darker affair, Mount Eerie is a challenging five-song concept album of meditations on death. Central Microphone Phil Elvrum sculpts an appropriately chaotic mélange with his frail, wavering voice, delicate guitar acoustics and haunting background vocals provided by labelmates Mirah and Calvin Johnson. Most prominent, however, are the constantly booming percussion and out-of-sync drum loops, which evoke (respectively) Mount Eerie and the narrator’s phobias surrounding...
...consumer in activities and experiences that are emotionally based but relevant," says Michael Bills, president of RPA, a retail management-and-design consultancy in Columbus, Ohio. That's a long way from the exclusiveness of Ralph Lauren's classic New York City flagship in the former Rhinelander mansion and Calvin Klein's ultra-urban-cool outlet on Madison Avenue, both trendsetting statements in their day. It's an experience that has now become two way, says Bills, thanks to the reach of technology. Before cable, before TiVo, we were sit-back consumers, willing to watch what was put before...
...Green responded with a run of its own, highlighted by two fearless treys by freshman Calvin Arnold, a contender for Ivy Rookie of the Year. The second of those buckets trimmed Harvard’s lead to two with 30 seconds left...
...additions Calvin Arnold, Patrick Cuttica, Michael Lang...
...happy medium between materialism and minimalism, filling the gap between thrift stores and Prada boutiques with well-made clothing produced by socially equitable relationships. She acknowledges that “a growing number of young people critique their generation’s slavish devotion to Abercrombie, North Face and Calvin, preferring the thrift shop aesthetic.” But clothing has many aesthetic, social and political dimensions, and Schor emphasizes that apparel shouldn’t be trivialized. “Don’t reject consumption,” she said to the crowd in the fiction section...