Word: dressing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...know I have to be on my toes to keep everything running smoothly," says Richard J. Lannon '86, one of Leverett House's two grill managers. "Our personnel bends over backwards to do a good job. The girls [who work at the grill] dress up on Wednesday nights. It helps bring in more business," he says...
...dealing with daughter Sunny marital problems and the other with daughter Helen's plans to get married to her nineteen-year-old boyfriend. (Why anyone would want to get married after experiencing what this family has gone through is entirely unclear, but the film does follow the wedding dress...
...children's toys had become plastic, throwaway items after World War II, grownups' furniture became overtly disposable. Frank Gehry's democratic cardboard-and-pressed- fiber chairs (1972) are delightful, but did anyone outside of an Antonioni film ever enjoy sitting on an inflatable plastic couch or wearing a paper dress? American designers today are again devoting themselves to grownup toys intended to make their owners feel science fictional. After a night playing with the food processor, the CD player and the PC, who wouldn't feel he had seen the future? The playfulness of high-art designers, however...
...last year of his life, as he was fighting semiparalysis from a stroke; yet the blunt, stabbing paint marks and the drawing that break from high academic certitude into the quavers of a loaded brush--not to mention the conception of Christ's humiliation before the Jews in contemporary dress, with a German officer as Roman centurion--are grittily eloquent...
Hence, "In the American West" is not primarily a social document at all, though at first glance it appears to be. Avedon is not absorbed by the reporter's task of showing how these people look and dress, or with acknowledging the full range of their emotional lives. Instead, against these blank white backgrounds he has projected the shapes of what appears to be his < own dejection, finding in each glum expression the corollary of a private somber mood. Yet the exhibition is also more than a magic-lantern display of the photographer's psychic woes. Looking through the lens...