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...Armi Ratia told Maija Isola that Marimekko wanted nothing to do with the pretty florals that have been a leitmotif of industrially produced furnishing fabrics ever since the advent of William Morris and Liberty of London. The headstrong Isola responded with a flower print that owes nothing to an English country garden. Though today Unikko adorns everything from shower curtains to cookie tins, when it was introduced, the print seemed to channel the rising wave of '60s discontent...
...comedian or a stand-up comic.” She also showed a self-deprecating streak, saying, “I’m a sloppy writer,” and that she was “very bad at titles.” Although she is fluent in English, Allende continues to write her novels in Spanish, and she superstitiously always begins writing each novel on January 8. Audience member Dahri I. McFaline, a Spanish teacher and long-time Allende reader, lauded the “strong humanistic side” of her writing, saying that her work...
...When did you know you wanted to go into law? CRS: My senior year in college I was torn between graduate school in English and law school. I thought that law would have more opportunities, and you could take a lot of different paths if you went into law. So not knowing exactly what to do, I took the path that seemed interesting and useful and also kept options open...
...uncertainty of history, determinism, and entropy, but the tension between order and disorder in the play does not extend to this crisp production.The themes and structure of “Arcadia” are complex: set in two alternating time periods at the same estate in the English countryside, the play is split between 1809 and 1989, cutting between two independent casts of characters who cohabit the same elegantly designed room. In the earlier setting, the story centers on the dialogue of the tutor Septimus Hodge (Jonah C. Priour ’09) and his pupil Thomasina Coverly (Sara...
...Haven't you heard of the 'Reconquista' of the United States? I live in the west - and the 'humanitarian' stealing of tax payers dollars here to fund the incompetence of Latinos to fund their own health care or learn English is appalling," wrote a blogger who signed as Diana Jorgensen. However, Mexican intellectuals view the re-conquest as cultural rather than military, talking with satisfaction over the fact people in California are speaking Spanish and eating enchiladas. No one in the mainstream of Mexican politics seriously contemplates an offensive northward. Mexico City car mechanic Santiago Gomez finds the ad funny...