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Noah may have built an arc, but one Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) concentrator is going about flood preparation in a different way—she has designed a line of water-friendly garb. Jane H. Van Cleef ’06 opened a store in Inman Square earlier this month to sell 14 different styles of clothes and accessories for her VES senior thesis. The clothing store, which she has dubbed the Climate Change Preparedness Center, sells items designed for “a swampy more aquatic-oriented future,” according to Van Cleef. The store?...
...dining, about 45 minutes is set aside for the "get-together," which is a time for casual conversation and community. Although a few Opus Dei priests live in the residence and are instantly identifiable by their robes and clerical collars, other Opus Dei members (or fellows) wear no identifying garb or insignias and are thus almost indistinguishable from the tutors, visitors, workers or anyone else who may come and go in the facility. Some of the fellows wear blue jeans and sports jackets. Neckties are uncommon, which lends the place an informal...
...turn for the political in “My Angel Rocks Back and Forth,”an ensemble piece choreographed by Dominique M. Elie ’06 and Todorova, that played like a populist parable. A cadre of dancers in turn-of-the-century workers’ garb cooperated to execute a series of increasingly demanding contortions—which, at times, strained their ability to maintain form and move fluidly—before the “workers” ultimately collapsed onto the ground as if dead. The fallen workers were then “kicked?...
DIED. Helen Cohn, 92, who helped her husband and business partner Nudie create garish, rhinestone-studded garb favored by glittery entertainers from the 1940s to the '80s; in Valencia, Calif. Among their most famous creations was a $10,000 gold lam suit for Elvis Presley (the profit for Nudie's Rodeo Tailors: $9,950). The ensembles were most popular among country stars like Roy Rogers and Buck Owens, who wore Nudies to their graves. The Cohns' motto: "It's better to be looked over than overlooked...
Showcasing traditional Native American garb, Native Americans at Harvard College (NAHC) celebrated the diversity of tribal cultures at its first “Represent Your Tribe Night” yesterday evening. A group of seven gathered in Kirkland House yesterday to present cultural items, such as a hand-made regalia and a dream catcher, to share their individual tribe’s tradition and history. “There’s a general misconception of a pan-native American identity,” said April D. Youpee-Roll ’08, a native of the Fort Peck Sioux...