Word: gathering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Mott Street in Little Italy, Manhattan's newest locus of hip, is where modish factions of the young professional class gather in cafes to talk about movies starring Steve Buscemi and to chain-smoke as though it were Milan or 1956. Mott Street is, in other words, a place you might envision as fashion's capital of spartan black. On a northern tip, though, sits a tiny 1 1/2-year-old shop named Calypso, where, on any given weekend, stylish young shoppers slither past one another to get at a collection of near-sheer pastel sweaters, lacy skirts, candy-colored coats...
...afternoon, permanent crowds often gather in front of the performers, enjoying the ambiance of the outdoor show. According to one musician, these unsolicited street concerts can pull in up to $50 a day. At the same time, a `slow' day can prove to be profitless...
Clearly, change comes slowly to the Harvard Faculty Club, a monument to the Ivory Tower where long-time professors and administrators gather to drink sherry and talk shop in green velvet armchairs. Little seems to have changed since the Club was built...
Long Table regulars--who include economistGalbraith, Center for International AffairsAssociate Benjamin H. Brown and Dean of StudentsArchie C. Epps III--gather for lunch and scholarlyconversation...
From the title alone, one can gather that Kara Walker's exhibit positions itself on a fine edge between mockery and representation, between historical narrative and cultural commentary. Rather than narrating history, Walker uses history as a backdrop for a less literal, though just as real, melodrama. Her work unabashedly analyzes the collective unconscious of the American psyche. What she dredges up--racist imagery involving bestiality, child abuse, feces and more--is not pretty. It is grotesque, disgusting, ingenious and eerily beautiful...