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...also in 1974 that she started work on The Dinner Party. It took Chicago and her volunteers five years to produce. A good part of their labor was devoted to the elaborate cloth runners, the real glories of the piece, that commemorate centuries of anonymous women's crafts. Each of those features needlework and decorative techniques--quilting, braiding, embroidery--appropriate to the woman whose plate it sits beneath. But even those runners can't rescue the plates, which are literally heavy handed. And the work's overall appeal to pious sentiment can remind you sometimes of the most hectoring kind...
...They're among the most common fractures - I've had one myself. You might end up with a bump like mine, or sometimes a bit of pain with certain activities (for me, it's swimming the breastroke). For generations, orthopedists have treated clavicle fractures with little more than a cloth support like a sling. The vast majority healed just fine. There is an operation we can do, putting a metal plate on the bone with screws, but it's not usually necessary...
...black expression through fashion. Despite the large influence and presence of black students on campus, black style has failed to flourish in the Harvard bubble. While some students may have donned baggy jeans, Chuck Taylor Converses, or Sunday hats when in their hometowns, a significant number shed these clothes for items that are more “suitable” for Harvard’s fashion culture. Many students who enter Harvard wearing the clothing of an urban dictate leave campus in sweater vests and loafers, ready to face a corporate world in which causal Fridays do not include construction...
...three laptops full of music in his living room but can't work iTunes on any of them, and when friends stop by, he greets them with well-intended but lung-collapsing hugs. He's your classic effortlessly amiable clumsy dude--a metaphorical Buddha in a terry-cloth robe...
...sold for more than $900,000, the highest price ever for a movie costume. (Proceeds to the City of Joy charity for poor children in India. "There are tears in my eyes," said Dominic Lapierre, founder of the charity. "I am absolutely dumbfounded to believe that a piece of cloth which belonged to such a magical actress will now enable me to buy bricks and cement to put the most destitute children in the world into schools...