Word: collared
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...sound of howling wind, a model emerges in a head-to-toe snow print wearing a delicate collar of cherry blossoms nodding on long, slender stems. Then, to the melancholy strains of a live string orchestra, others follow in puffed coats so intricately puckered and gathered that models look encased in origami cocoons. The collection, the fourth by Issey Miyake's heir apparent Naoki Takizawa, creates an effect so mesmerizing that, for a moment, even the most hard-nosed store buyers forget niggling practicalities like what happens if you sit while furled in those brilliantly colored coats...
Even when he is writing about relatively fantastic subjects, like spirit possession in sheep, Murakami's sensibility is that of the skeptical realist. His narrator is inevitably everyman, contemporary Tokyo edition - a thirtyish urban male in a low-key, white-collar job, a somewhat passive fellow who doesn't expect much out of life and takes what comes with jaded equanimity. Like the narrators of Raymond Carver's stories - Murakami is Carver's translator - they are unremarkable men, less driven by the ethic to succeed and less enmeshed in the powerful webs of family and business and community than most...
...more like a man?" Today, the question is, "Why the heck would she want to be?" Men perpetrate almost all the world's mayhem, dig and fill its mass graves, dominate 90-something percent of the drug trade, sex tourism, child molesting, domestic and racial violence, alcoholism statistics, white collar crime. This destructiveness is not new, but now two of the hooks upon which fellows have been hanging the arguments for continuance - procreation and physical pleasure - are also going the way of Humpty Dumpty...
...know that fusion is hot, sizzling, more caliente than a salsa beat. It's that multiculti urge that propels us to douse a hamburger with teriyaki sauce or buy an Armani jacket with a Nehru collar. Such marriages of East and West are a harmless intermingling of cultures: a war never started by adding a dollop of wasabi to potato chips or a bindhi to Madonna's forehead...
...McKean ’02 and Amy Offner ’01 wrote on this page on Monday, the group has met with administrators “countless times” over a period of years. President Neil L. Rudenstine’s father and mother, both blue-collar workers, never earned a living wage in their entire careers, and he repeatedly emphasizes how deeply he understands the movement’s concerns. In response to PSLM’s demands, Rudenstine convened an ad hoc committee on employment practices which recommended increased overall compensation for Harvard workers. The committee...