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WANTED: POLO SHIRTS, SIZE XXL Big-and-tall stores should brace themselves for some wealthy new customers with an urgent need for sport coats. When the NBA's new dress code goes into effect Nov. 1, Philadelphia 76ers guard ALLEN IVERSON is one player who will have to retire his throwback jerseys, do-rags and chunky gold chains to comply with the new "business casual" rule for games and league events. To tackle a perception problem, NBA commissioner David Stern has banned all headgear, shorts, T shirts and necklaces visible outside clothing. "Everybody has their own style," says Iverson. "That...
...women players who maintain realistic limits, poker can be invigorating socially and even professionally. Jennifer Nichols, 25, a San Francisco public relations executive, hosts a Texas Hold 'Em party for her girlfriends every Monday night. The players, ages 21 to 28, dress sloppy, eschew makeup and dish over Desperate Housewives. "Everyone's so busy," she says, "but at the games my girlfriends and I really get to talk. And because it's considered a male game, other women think it's cool that...
...backdrop of persistent family problems. Beethoven’s father was chronically short of money, and he found too much comfort at the end of the bottle. His mother, who saw seven of her 10 children die young, suffered from depression, and she neglected Beethoven’s dress and hygiene. Nevertheless, Beethoven loved her deeply. He cut short his stay in Vienna – where he was studying under Mozart – when he learned that his mother was dying...
...short film out of a song by a band whose music is hardly visual. The video concerns a bald, portly, middle-aged man, living a soulless corporate life in a particularly depressing Bed, Bath, Linens, Things and Beyond. Following are shots of mattresses and men with ill-fitting dress shirts; general misery ensues, backed by lead singer Britt Daniel’s restrained 4/4 emotions. Later, said fat protagonist comes home, relaxes, eats, puts on women’s clothing… what? Yes, it seems that, as Daniel croons it, “no one knows the two sides...
...still have science buried deep within me today?These days, I doubt it. But just in case, at least the old Halloween costume probably fits.Pablo S. Torre ‘07, a sociology concentrator in Quincy House, is an associate sports chair of The Crimson. He really wants to dress up as a Care Bear this year, and not necessarily for Halloween...