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...know what to pray for. The marbled vestibule seemed to spin around her in a white haze. All around her, the blur of white walls and white pillars and spare mahogany furniture seemed to dissolve into one streak, like a spirit. She sank to the floor, clasping her hands. And as if a voice had spoken to her, she knew with a sudden strength and certainty that the stranger was not good—nay! that he was evil on earth. She knew that he had come to the villa to contaminate its residents, to possess them with his wickedness...
...Quynh L. “Quinn” Dang’s model kicked it old school in a black and white floor-length jersey dress inspired by Puritan Minister Cotton Mather, Class of 1678. Dang’s goal was to take the “pure out of Puritan.” A quick spin down the runway, with the detachable caplet in hand, showed off a revealing, low-cut back. Would Mather have been pleased? Shocked? God only knows...
Dang’s vision is realized in her final product—a floor length backless black gown, with white asymmetric cutouts around the midsection, and an added cape for flare. “I’m taking all the elements and color that were part of the theme for Cotton Mather and putting my own style to it,” she says. The dress does just that as it captures the no-nonsense mindset of the Puritan Mather, while also capturing the attention of all those who pass...
...friend averts her eyes and eventually waves her arms halfheartedly in the air before turning leadership over to a sandy-haired boy whose only dance movements consist of sliding around the dance floor in his white tube socks...
...Then there's the "devil's party" room, an apartment on the top floor of a 15th century manor house that emits strange sounds after midnight. According to legend, a mysterious man in a cape rented the apartment a few hundred years back; a neighbor who peaked around the door to find out what all the noise was about one night saw the devil himself. The single window in the room is now bricked up and the glazing painted with a fake curtain. According to a clerk at a nearby hotel, a Dutch diplomat who not long ago rented rooms...