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Defining themselves seems to be what the decorating craze is all about for kids, and marketers are happy to oblige with all sorts of easy-to-apply identities. At BombayKids, for instance, product lines are built around concepts like Hippie Chick--fringe, flower power and peace symbols--and Betsy Girl--hot-pink silks, zebra prints and pink beading. "We create a theme, thinking, What's this person like? How do they really live?" explains director of merchandising Kristina Fideli-Ventura. No matter what the concept, "there's lots of color, jewels, gems, glitter," she says. Kid style is "not demure...
...found communism so oppressive that he withdrew to an isolated hilltop house near Prague and in 1973 declared it his own state - complete with its own anthem. "State Gebauer" became an "island of free expression" populated with whimsical figures of swimmers, gnomes and cows. And being a largely abstract concept, the sculptor's retreat escaped the attention of the authorities. Many unofficial artists working behind the Iron Curtain created private cocoons where they could work unhindered, though this meant their work was rarely seen. Now a new museum in Prague seeks to rescue them from obscurity. "This generation has been...
Free time is a foreign concept to Mariam F. Eskander ’05. It seems that she spends about as much time hanging out as she does frowning...
Eskander doesn’t complain about the meeting, or the fact that she will have three meetings on Sunday, or the fact that she will start her 5 class schedule on Monday morning before returning to Dorchester to tutor. Complaining is a foreign concept to Eskander...
...hilarious The Simple Life (premiere date to be announced), which takes Paris Hilton (scioness of the Hilton hotel family) and Nicole Richie (daughter of singer Lionel) and plants them for a month on a farm in Arkansas. It's Green Acres verite, proving that any high-concept '60s sitcom not involving a genie is a reality show in the making. The two blonds are clearly no strangers to privation, having about 0.01% body fat apiece, but they soon find rural life harder than Pilates. Given $50 to buy groceries, they go over budget and plead for a break from...