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...Harvard. There's a lot of stress here. People are striving to be perfect," one of the co-directors says. Harvard's emphasis on dress-up occasions--formals and cocktail parties abound--also puts on the pressure...

Author: By Victoria C. Hallett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Body Language: ECHO Listens | 3/19/1999 | See Source »

...most decisively lifts the concept of the human female out of its traditional oxymoronic status. You gotta love a self-described "female chauvinist sow" who writes like Walt Whitman crossed with Erma Bombeck and depicts the vagina as a "Rorschach with legs." Woman: An Intimate Geography is a delicious cocktail of estrogen and amphetamine designed to pump up the ovaries as well as the cerebral cortex...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Real Truth About The Female Body | 3/8/1999 | See Source »

...just hope poor Harry doesn't get too upset the next time Rudenstine holds a fundraising cocktail party in his mausoleum...

Author: By James Y. Stern, | Title: Endpaper: Frozen Out of Widener | 2/25/1999 | See Source »

...just hope poor Harry doesn't get too upset the next time Rudenstine holds a fundraising cocktail party in his mausoleum...

Author: By James Y. Stern, | Title: FROZEN OUT OF WIDENER | 2/25/1999 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Designing Woman | 2/22/1999 | See Source »

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