Word: glittering
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Times are changing at Harvard University. Last Thursday, the once pristine Harvard Yard, that manicured display of Ivy League tidiness and efficiency, transformed into a bona fide outdoor disco, fit for half-naked men in sheaths of glitter and metallic booty shorts. No, this wasn’t the unveiling of a new Harvard clothing line; it was the inaugural presentation of the Common Spaces initiative, featuring the American Repertory Theater’s (A.R.T.) latest theatrical extravaganza, “The Donkey Show,” a spin-off of Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer...
...album’s end. These songs comprise a prodigious 37 minutes (longer than a few of their early LPs), and only one of them seems essential. “The Fireside” drones and wanders but never ignites; closing number “And the Glitter is Gone” picks up where “Beat Your Ass” extended intro “Pass the Hatchet” left off, but can’t register the same urgency without handclaps and vocals. “More Stars Than There Are in Heaven?...
Death and nostalgia are proving to be a money-making opportunity for music memorabilia collectors and big auction houses who are hawking everything from Michael Jackson's iconic white glitter glove to old ticket stubs from rock's legendary Woodstock festival. (Woodstock Remembered: A legendary photographer looks back...
...glitter and glam of the Barbie gathering at the Marriot Wardman Hotel may have seemed out of touch with the nation's economic woes, but "the Barbie market is very, very strong," says Sandi Holder, owner of the world's sole Barbie-only museum, located in Union City, Calif. And she should know: her biennial Barbie auction did well this year, despite the economy. Holder, who gave up her career as a pediatric intensive-care nurse in order to pursue her Barbie passion, even takes the cake with a world record: in 2004 she auctioned...
...ones. "Not Christian, but Buddhist. Maybe even John Woo," he says. The mind strains to contemplate a Takarazuka production of something like Woo's historical epic Red Cliff. But you'd be amazed at what can be done with 400 women, gorgeously lit pastel scenery and a ton of glitter...