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...concert began with an acrobatic display by the Harvard Breakers, a group of undergraduate break dancers. Brian D. Lee ’06 wore a black fedora as he contorted his body during a popping routine. Lee said the Breakers, which was founded just last year, did two of its biggest shows on Friday, at Eleganza earlier in the night and later at the Busta Rhymes concert...
...Keillor family meeting at our house in 1947--no need for footnotes or apology, you just sit down in Les Deux Magots cafe and hash it out, as French people of great elegance and purposefulness stride past, one of whom reminds you of your dad, a gray fedora on his head, smiling at the Revere movie camera as yellow streetcars rumble down Bloomington Avenue in 1953, and we children perk up and smile--someone off-camera has told us to smile, and like good children...
Return with us to those thrilling days of yesteryear: the '80s, when a fedora-topped, whip-cracking, ophidiophobic archaeologist kindled the innocent spirit of antique adventure-movie serials in a generation of kids who had never been to a Saturday matinee. After Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, producer George Lucas and director Steven Spielberg are hatching a fourth episode, to star the sexagenarian Harrison Ford. But why wait for that film? Relive the first three in a spiffy new DVD boxed set from Paramount Home Video...
...proved the wrongest: that grief and war would moderate our culture and elide our differences. Movies would stop blowing up buildings; reality shows would stop humiliating people; comedians would stop being ironic. Atlantic Monthly editor Michael Kelly envisioned a day when American men would again be able to wear fedora hats without smirking. It was a fleeting moment for cultural critics who, like The Great Gatsby's Nick Carraway, longed to see the world "in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever...
...corny mayoral wagers are back in 2003. If the Giants win the World Series, Anaheim mayor Tom Daly promises to host a Bay Area family for a weekend ("Wow, mom, can we really go visit the city whose team just broke my heart?!") AND wear an orange and black fedora. San Francisco mayor Willie Brown promises to host an Anaheim family and wear a Gene Autry-style cowboy...