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Saint Laurent, perennially melancholy, makes no secret of his dismay at the industry's reverence of marketing over craftsmanship. "I have nothing in common with this new world of fashion, which has been reduced to mere window dressing," he told Paris Match. "Elegance and beauty have been banished." But he and his business partner and sometime lover Pierre Berge are leaving a garden they helped plant. The 172 Rive Gauche boutiques they opened worldwide were the first to make French style available to the reasonably wealthy as well as the obscenely rich, and Saint Laurent lent his name to sunglasses...
...read with dismay President Lawrence H. Summers’ comments a few weeks ago suggesting that academic institutions adjust their views to incorporate “mainstream values” (News, “Summers Speaks Out on Patriotism...
...story could be about Harvard and the Arsenal on the Charles, the $163 million Watertown office park that the University purchased last spring to the city’s great dismay. Alternatively, however, it could be about the Catholic Church and the nature of lordship in 13th-century England...
...privately funded Advanced Cell Technologies was met by an immediate political response, as President George W. Bush called the procedure “morally wrong” and urged Congress to ban the research. The House passed such a ban in July, and a number of senators have expressed dismay about the company’s actions...
Year after year, my older brother and I would start wearing only periwinkle and white (much to my father’s dismay and confusion) towards the end of each season, hoping that our terrible fashion faux pax would be viewed as a heartfelt offering to the football playoff gods...