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...bone with blue fabric attached washed up on a beach, and medical techinicians examined it to see if it belonged to one of the seven astronauts killed in Tuesday's shuttle explosion...
...status is an accident of circumstance and, during a particular day in June, I occasionally regret the circumstance. But I neither resent, nor would I tamper with, the privileges attendant on being a member of the Class of whatever. Similarly for a variety of other "clubs" comprising the Harvard fabric. Nowadays, the exclusive character of most is premised on members sharing some particular skill--athletic, scholarly, artistic...
ALMOST INSTANTLY and most unbelievably, Harry dispenses with family life, discarding his wife of nearly thirty years, the long-suffering and fabric-softener conscious Kate (Ellen Burstyn), and his two daughters, big-mouthed Sunny, wonderfully over-played by Amy Madigan, and big-hearted Helen, quietly gushed by Ally Sheedy. Conducting himself with all the maturity of a love-sick adolescent, Harry gurgles gleefully to his lover, "It's been so long since I had somebody I wanted to please," totally overlooking the fact that just as he utters those words, his wife stays dutifully at home, either starching the collars...
...were obliged always to appear in white and never to wear the same toilette twice. Worth even felt a heavy obligation to the French silkmaking industry. When crinolines became so enormous as to be dangerous to the wearer, Worth concocted the bustle as a way to use quantities of fabric without incarcerating his clients...
...earth tones) and partly too from what Curator Singh calls "the fugitive color palette"--the homespun miracle that would occur when a villager, out of necessity, dyed and redyed the same piece of cloth. Serendipity and splendor then: fashion as tradition. Fashion, indeed, as the warp of the social fabric...