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...showed a similar lack of community. Hotel rooms and trains, one person in each, dominate Hopper's landscape; gray office buildings and solitary Cape Cod houses illuminated by eerie winter light are de rigeur. His colors are often lurid, with chartreuse green on a living room wall where the floral wallpaper should be, and his subjects' eyes are often mere black dots...
...portrait of his Irish lover, Jo Hiffernan, Symphony in White, No. 1: The White Girl. Shown in London first and then in Paris, it provoked a buzz of irrelevant interpretation. The expressionless young woman in virginal white, standing on a wolfskin with a lily in her hand (that floral emblem of the Aesthetic Movement), was declared to be a bride the night after; or a fallen ex-maiden; or a victim of mesmerism--anything, except what she was, a model posing in Whistler's studio to give him a pretext to paint shades of white with extreme virtuosity and subtlety...
...hold onto on the T. I have to ask my roommate to get stuff for me from the top shelf of the closet, and I'm condemned to roam the petites section, that dreaded place in every department store where all the little old ladies and their tacky floral handbags hang out. But never fear, the stiletto heel is here. Although it doesn't save me from shopping alongside gray hair and cellulite, the glorious four-inch spike does countless other wonders for the petite...at the price of much pain (hey, a short girl's gotta do what...
...declared than someone else is declaring that the real rebellion is . . . conventionally understood ways of dressing. So this year's most up-to-the-minute design-wear house, X-Girl, owned by Kim Gordon of the rock band Sonic Youth, is hawking brightly colored tennis sweaters, polo shirts and floral-print shifts that hark back to the Lilly Pulitzers of the horsey set, circa 1973. "Our dresses are very country club," explains X-Girl's chief designer, Daisy Von Furth. "People are tired of finding the oldest, grungiest T shirt in a thrift store." She adds, "A lot of young...
...store will try to be "a little different" than other flower shops, Delisle said. It will offer dried flowers, gifts, and art pieces with floral subjects, as well as a variety of cut flowers...