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...that's the message Lady Liberty doesn't deliver when the immigrant first sees her. Success in the United States means becoming American. Fortunately, in some areas of the country the culture changes accompanying the entry of immigrants have altered the fabric of American life. At Harvard that transformation has hardly happened...
...class can rightly be portrayed as a natural fabric about to change. At the time we had no inkling. The headlines about riots and Kennedy ordering troops to Cuba were just rumblings to us," says Richard B. Barthelmes '61, advertising director for Gourmet magazine...
YOSHIKI HISHINUMA, 27, is an anomaly. His clothes, rendered in magisterial folds of fabric and silhouettes that wed high drama to gut-level rock-'n'-roll spirit, appear to Western eyes to be the most formally Japanese. They have the reckless ebullience of decade-old Miyake, and they use the sort of unconventional material (like fishing line) that has been associated with the cutting edge in Tokyo. You can buy them in New York and Chicago, Hong Kong and Kuwait, but, Hishinuma says with some bemusement, they are "avant-garde and not very commercial," so they are not for sale...
...better times. The sudden great wealth created social tensions that should be relieved in a less affluent period. "Those times before were not normal," says one Saudi businessman. "They were not real." A longtime British resident offers a similar perspective: "Patterns of life are traditional here, and the entire fabric still fits very well together. The system has been in place for 200 years, and people feel very comfortable with their government and their religion. What alternative has been offered?" Yet that may be too simple. While the Saudis clearly will not swallow all foreign ways whole, they are just...
...taken the drab setting of prison granite and turned it into a three-dimensional playhouse. Like a giant pop-up book, the Tower courtyard springs from the stage and folds out to provide interior scenes. Costumes are generally adequate and occasionally impressive, but snatches of synthetic fabric detract from the Elizabethan feel, and several chorus members seem garbed in get-ups on loan from neighboring centuries...