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...contrast, American Apparel is thriving. With 300 workers, Charney's factory produced 5.5 million imprintable T shirts, tank tops and panties in the past year, most labeled Classic Girl or Standard American. Regional screen printers, distributors and retailers accounted for 90% of his $20 million in sales. The rest went to private-label companies...
...north side of the Yangtze, where the path runs some 50 m above the late-summer waterline. About 1.5 m wide, it's paved with well fitting flagstones running westward through light brush. Only a few sections have crumbled since its completion in 1900, a sharp contrast to most roads in the area. Below us are traces of lower trails, narrow and treacherous paths used by workmen who needed to be closer to the river. Short, granite pillars line the path, grooved by a thousand trackers' ropes...
...final section of the show is a rock ballet, “Warning This May Cause,” choreographed by a professional choreographer Derrick Sellers, and complete with a light show and music by Björk. The frantic, almost violent tone of the ballet is a stark contrast to the fluidity of the previous piece. When the dancers open their mouths, there is almost a bestial quality to them; when they assault the stage with baseball bats, they assault the senses of an audience not used to movements so powerful and abrupt. This piece, the most challenging...
...piano appeared amid flashing beams, and Amos, clad in shoulder-padded white, hurtled onstage, straddled the piano and laid her fingers on the keys. Recent tours had seen her experimenting with a full band, whose bluster was in sharp contrast to the fiery solo piano that had been Amos’ trademark. The “Strange Little Tour,” as it was called, marked a return to the girl-with-a-piano paradigm. In that vein, only three of the songs Amos played that night were from Strange Little Girls, opting instead to grant a grateful audience...
...contrast to the struggling Harvard squad, Dartmouth (6-3-1, 2-1-1) enters tomorrow’s game on a roll, having won three straight. The Big Green defeated Fairfield 4-1 on Wednesday night...