Word: courtyard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Afternoon shadows slid through the archways of the Louvre Palace into the splendor of a 16th century courtyard. Across the cobblestones, as if for a medieval tournament, white tents opened their flaps to costumed crowds. Celebrities, fashion journalists and retailers from Kansas City to Kuwait milled about. Suddenly, without fanfare, a man in cut-off overalls, a ponytail and phosphorescent orange hightops strolled onto an enclosed runway and slowly spray-painted a huge red heart on a white backdrop. With the exaggerated staginess of a Looney Tune, he turned to the audience, pressed a finger to his lips...
...course, who responded to the story of the traveling Italians with the kind of equanimity that barely skirts smugness. "Paris is still No. 1 in fashion," says Jacques Mouclier, president of the Chambre Syndicale, which sponsors the twice-yearly ready-to-wear fashion shows held in the jammed courtyard of the Louvre. "The Italians have come because they've realized they can't do without us. The Milan ready-to-wear draws far fewer journalists than the shows in Paris. Need I say more...
Young says masters from the 1950s set the tone for their houses. Young in particular noted Finley and Master Eliot Perkins of Lowell as "the classic masters of Harvard legend." The pair even battled one another from their courtyard domains in a long-standing rivlarly...
Episode Two: (November 1988, Winthrop's Standish courtyard, about 1 a.m.) While heading home after a long night of studying in Winthrop's house library, I am greeted on the sidewalk by what I initially think is a squirrel. A quick second look at a long, hairless tail convinces me that this rodent, now running for the bushes, is no innocuous squirrel, but a well...
...outward manifestations of the debate are easily sighted: witness the pink triangles and blue squares posted in students' windows all around the Mather House courtyard...