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...none of them are. I wasn’t named after a state either, actually. I was named after my mother’s good friend who happened to make her wedding dress...
...another way for Harvard to distinguish itself from the rest of the world. We don’t major (God forbid)—we concentrate. We don’t live in dorms (cringe!)—we reside in Houses. And we certainly don’t dress without needlepoint belts and collars (popped, of course)—we parade our Nantucket reds and salmon-champagnes as proudly as our crimsons...
...Sadr's fierce young lieutenants apply a puritanical Islamic creed when and where they can. They insist women go veiled, they bar Western music and dress, they censor films and close--or burn down--liquor stores. In Najaf they have set up an office for the "Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice," just as the Taliban did in Afghanistan. Al-Sadr has authorized his followers to set up illegal courts and prisons in Baghdad and eight southern cities, where al-Sadr enemies have allegedly been tortured...
That line gives a clue to the approach of director John Lee Hancock (The Rookie) and the platoon of writers: they want simultaneously to criticize and celebrate U.S. imperialism. The good intentions and lousy planning of the Alamo's defense make it seem like a 19th century dress rehearsal for Vietnam. A shot of American corpses dangling from a tree has an eerie resemblance to images this month of a bridge in Fallujah, Iraq. But the Alamo massacre is only Act II. Houston's quick victory at the subsequent Battle of San Jacinto seized Texas from Mexican control and allows...
...Many of those objects and more than 30 elaborate 18th century costumes will be on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in "Dangerous Liaisons: Fashion and Furniture in the 18th Century" starting on April 29. The exhibition, curated by Harold Koda and Andrew Bolton, explores the interplay of dress and decorative arts in France from 1750 to 1789. It was inspired by Jean-François de Bastide, author of the erotic novella The Little House. He believed seriously expensive and elaborate furniture and clothing were not meant to be just aesthetic eye candy; they were also used as tools...