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...element of fun, flippancy, and irreverence,” says Tanenhaus. “You can call these bags shabby chic or minimalistic and classy. Or, they could be what your five year old made when she screwed...

Author: By T.e. Chang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Nice Legs | 9/27/2001 | See Source »

Sadly, the chic punk atmposphere of Matthews 407 was not enough to scare off local vandals. Last Thursday, Li and Tanenhaus were startled to find a condom missing from Menelaos throat. Well be actively accepting any and all donations to help replace the loss. Li never looks a gift horse in the mouth...

Author: By W. L. Adams, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: All the Pretty Condoms | 9/21/2001 | See Source »

...hard to imagine a person less suited to carrying the name of the early 20th century boxer Jack Johnson than the early 21st century folk singer Jack Johnson. The contemporary Johnson, 26, spends his days shuffling between rooms of a shabby-chic Santa Barbara bungalow, editing surf films and strumming out tunes on an acoustic guitar. When life gets too tough, he takes a five-minute stroll to the the beach. "I try to surf everyday," he says quietly. "If there's no waves, I'll go swimming, or we'll just set up camp with a cooler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A New Kind Of Beach Boy | 9/17/2001 | See Source »

...valuable minutes at the start of a lecture rubbing an aching arm and shoulder before I could start writing down what the prof said. Taking a cue from classmates, I finally got a large, wide-strapped bag with a third strap that wrapped around the hips. It wasn't chic but it did wonders for my sore muscles--and note taking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Some Schooling On Backpacks | 9/10/2001 | See Source »

...good business, for example, to portray the Joad family traveling west in a sleek eight-cylinder Packard sedan, Tom Joad's diamond Rolex flashing in the Dust Bowl air. The poor do not make good ads..... Or do they? Might be edgy possibilities here, a kind of Walker Evans chic - a good spread in Vanity Fair, page after page of gaunt black-and-white shots, weathered Depression faces, a certain erotic poverty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Novels Become Commercials | 9/3/2001 | See Source »

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