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...identified, in a photograph, “the two sluggers in their entryway who failed to register opinions.” The ones to blame for Kirkland’s “ignominious defeat”? Max and Jesse, the House dogs. (Christakis’ theory is that Elsa and Rudy, the Pfoho dogs, had “chased them away...

Author: By Michelle L. Quach, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Pfoho Celebrates a Victory | 12/16/2009 | See Source »

...audience”), and people (“Tristan, Tzara”) burst with the raw energy he demands. Dada artists themselves provide most of the fun. Tzara once unraveled a roll of toilet paper marked “Merde” to end a performance and Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven wore a birdcage as a hat to parties. Codrescu amplifies their liveliness with his tight, brisk sentences: “In Sparta, bored out of her mind, the baroness sneaked off to Cincinnati by train to model nude at an art school.” What Codrescu doesn?...

Author: By Madeleine M. Schwartz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Posthumanity Plagues A Port-Dada Historian | 4/10/2009 | See Source »

...latest It bag to get a handle on the market is the revamped Roberta Di Camerino Bign bag (right), part of the Venetian fashion empire started in the '40s by Giuliana Coen and favored by the likes of Grace Kelly, Elizabeth Taylor and Elsa Maxwell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The latest It bag | 12/2/2008 | See Source »

...family’s move to a lonely country estate. However, he soon takes a keen interest in the “farm” that he sees from his bedroom window. “Why do the farmers wear pajamas?” Bruno asks his mother, Elsa (Vera Farmiga). The “farm” is actually the concentration camp his father supervises. After finding out about the nearby camp, Elsa forbids Bruno to go exploring behind the house, and Bruno, of course, disobeys her instructions. During his exploration of the camp’s perimeter...

Author: By April M. Van buren, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 'The Boy in the Striped Pajamas' | 11/21/2008 | See Source »

...begins I've Loved You So Long, a finely modulated and totally absorbing first film by Philippe Claudel, who is better known, at least in France, as a novelist. In a few minutes her sister, Léa (Elsa Zylberstein), arrives to conduct Juliette to what amounts to her new life - as a guest in Léa's home, which consists of Luc, her grumpy husband, two adopted daughters and Luc's father, who is unfailingly cheerful despite the fact that a stroke has rendered him mute. It's an inherently awkward situation, rendered much more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Modest Triumph of I've Loved You So Long | 10/24/2008 | See Source »

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