Word: dressing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...struck again. Sophomore forward TmColeman did not dress this weekend. He suffered amild ankle strain in practice last Wednesday, andis suffering from bronchitis, which was initiallymisdiagnosed by University Health Services. Hisstatus for this weekend is uncertain...
...Antiope, Pomona, Echo, Canens and Syrinx, among other nymphs with literary pedigrees. But who is the old woman, and what is she doing? If her outstretched palms are protecting the girl, she's facing the wrong direction--away from Pan. Who is the woman in the green dress and the gold armor? Virtue? Chastity? What are the bound music manuscripts doing on the ground, and the overturned lapis lazuli pitcher? And why are the lemons on the tree so big and out of scale...
...Bill. The latest White House romance unfolds in a novel called Face-Time by Erik Tarloff, a screenwriter and occasional Clinton speechwriter who's married to Laura Tyson, formerly Clinton's top economist. But the reason people are talking about Face-Time, which Tarloff began long before the Gap dress went under an FBI microscope, isn't that it offers an insider's look at explicit sex. These days you can get that on C-SPAN. In fact, the book's treatment of matters of the flesh is almost quaint; unlike Ken Starr, Tarloff leaves most of the steamy stuff...
...women's dress evolve from the balloon-derriere silhouette of the 19th century to the cleaner, linear look that has characterized the 20th? This show at the Met's Costume Institute makes the dazzling and utterly convincing visual argument that what facilitated the transition was the influence of Cubist painting and theory. From the tunics of Callot Soeurs to the cylindrical day dresses of Vionnet to the drop-waist skirts of Chanel in the 1920s, fashion's deflation followed the Cubist embrace of the plane. In other words, liberated from corsets, women everywhere owe a thank-you to Picasso...
Even after visiting the museum and reading all the way through the accompanying pamphlet, it would be impossible to have a true understanding of all the main features and little nuances of this period of French drawings. It is more likely that the red folds of a lady's dress or the happy dance of a satyr will leave a more lasting impression than the names of the four categories or the techniques used to create...