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MENTION PARISIAN JEWELER VAN CLEEF & ARPELS to an expert, and he or she will rhapsodize about the company's enhancement of stones with the minimum use of metal, and its famous clientele, including such style icons as Marlene Dietrich, Princess Grace of Monaco and the Duchess of Windsor. But the real gem of Van Cleef is the craftsmanship?the seemingly invisible settings, and the sway and movement in the designs. Today the pieces are created as intricately as they were when the house, which is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year, opened. All the high jewelry pieces are still made...
...take home-Clooney through a side door, since he won as an actor in Syriana, not as a director or screenwriter of Good Night, and Good Luck. ?All right,? he fake-sulked when he accepted his trophy, ?so I?m not winning Director.? But he did serve, with handsome grace, as Hollywood?s poster boy for glamour, taking a few genial shots from Stewart (?I kid because I envy?) and hearing a female winner of the Short Subject Oscar ?thank the Academy for seating me next to George Clooney at the nominees? luncheon.? (The star, who knew a camera...
...understand how this fantastic artist’s growth is based on talent and fueled by a need for experimentation.Downstairs, a far smaller exhibit brings together posters advertising San Francisco rock concerts in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Their deep oranges, pinks, turquoises, and greens rotate in spirals, grace the arabesques of illegible typography, and decorate faces, flowers, and animals.The psychedelic style is as ingrained in our culture now as the Grateful Dead’s sound, which makes it all the more fascinating to see the conception of this aesthetic here.Changing colored lights illuminate several prints, which respond...
Using multi-colored ribbons, The Asian American Dance Troupe elegantly blended Asian dance with beautifully mesmerizing leaps across the stage. Adorning themselves with the ribbons and pirouetting, this was no ordinary ribbon-dancing. In beautiful Asian garments, the dancers were the picture of grace and Hayek was quite captivated saying, “That was the most beautiful thing I have ever seen.” Judging by the reaction from the audience, it appeared to be a mutual feeling around Sanders...
...boring. The group of soloists all played admirably. Kathryn E. Andersen ’07 and Brendan J. Gillis ’06, soloing in the “Sinfonia concertante for violin, viola, & orchestra,” communicated beautifully, handing melodies off to one another with facility and grace. Soprano Amanda Forsythe was terrific singing the aria “Misera, dove son!”. But pianist and composer Aaron L. Berkowitz, a second year student at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, was the clear standout. His performance of the Adagio movement from Mozart?...