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Playing to the evening’s survival theme, attendees were instructed to wear their “gutsiest” attire. Many took this as an open invitation to parade their most colorful outfits, whether by simply adding a blue feather boa to a classic black dress, or by squeezing into a red tutu and donning fairy wings. Event volunteers tried to engage the more conservatively dressed into the festivities by passing out bindis and spraying guests’ hair with glitter...
Holl, who teaches and practices in New York City, is famous too for a fine-fibered sense of materials. One of his organizing principles he describes as "the stone and the feather," that being his notion of how weight and weightlessness are best understood in the presence of each other. You understand them better yourself at the Chapel of St. Ignatius, where thin sheets of zinc roofing meet rough concrete walls along knife-edged junctures. The heft of the concrete accentuates the fine metal, which reciprocates by pointing up the raw mass of the heavier material...
...sisterhood of soul. In recent months, a wave of promising R.-and-B. divas has hit the radio and video airwaves, including big-voiced newcomer Alicia Keys (Songs in A Minor), neo-soul singer Res (How I Do) and soul-rock crooner Nikka Costa (Like a Feather, the single from her recently released album Everybody Got Their Something, is one of the year's catchiest songs). All these young soul crooners make music that's tinged with rap rhythms: the hip-hop gives their work an edge, while the soul makes it all go down easy. Seger's work stands...
Bourque has reached the point in his career where nobody mentions his numbers anymore. He is the NHL’s John Elway, trying to find a way to put that one last feather into his cap before Father Time says that you cannot play anymore...
...move. Words lag behind, like a badly dubbed-in translation in a foreign movie. An eerie whistling sound seeps in and out of the audio, and the camera doesn't catch details in Ashton's many works of art. Her brilliant yellow clay dragon with jewel-like eyes and feather wings is a gray blob on the computer screen. But to Ashton, the videoconference is "cool." To her mom, it's "a godsend...