Word: gown
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...undergraduates in unparalleled comfort and luxury. In the process there was a certain amount of cannibalization of real estate, and ladies who ran boarding houses for students were being done out of their livelihood. This did not sit very well with the city fathers. The relationship between "town" and "gown," always edgy, took a distinct turn for the worse. Some of the awe and respect with which the University had been viewed in earlier days by the rest of Cambridge had been eroded in the last decade or so, and Councillor Toomey, at a meeting of the City Council, even...
Actually the problem with the structure probably has more to do with a fourth reason longstanding neighborhood mistrust over Harvard's steady encroachment through its money and power, into the city. But while this kind of worry is often warranted for many of the town gown issues which divide Harvard and Cambridge, in this case, it is way off base...
Throughout the '30s and '40s, densely academic images of slightly poisoned girlish innocence would become Balthus's stock-in-trade. He did portraits too. His rendering of Andre Derain as a jowly menhir of flesh in a dressing gown is surely one of the great portraits of the century. But the schoolgirls were his preoccupation. Nobody could call them obscene; they have Art written all over them. Yet they have a great deal in common with the higher literary porn of the '40s, in which writers like Georges Bataille or Andre Pieyre de Mandiargues wove faultless...
What it does mean, however, is living your life on guard, within tantalizing reach of platoons of adoring fans who stake out the gates of the Encino house starting at 4 a.m. or so. It means bringing home the hospital gown you wore after the accident on the Pepsi commercial and letting it be tossed over the fence, to be caught by one of the most adoring of the faithful, Dena Cypher, 16. "I look at it every night, smell it, all that good stuff," she reports. "I was going to wear it to bed, but my mom talked...
...plays, as do shoppers at The Wandering Eye (1297 Cambridge St.). In the back of the store, behind the usual selection of old clothing and jewelry. The Wandering Eye has a costume rental department. For $15 to $25 a day, you can rent out a beaded dress, a ball gown, or a feather boa. And they aren't in demand just at Halloween, says owner Emily McAdoo: "I'm surprised at the evidence of really interesting parties that go on here all year round." She has outfitted groups going to a medieval wedding party and a "Vicars and Tarts" party...