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...segment, directed by Gunawan, explores the lives of ordinary people living in American Chinatowns. “Nathan and I went to the Garment District to look for clothes, and we’d ask ourselves questions like, ‘Is this something your 80-year-old grandma would wear?’” Lee says. “We’re trying to look at a community besides the usual portrayal of Chinatown with seedy restaurants and gangsters.”“East Meets West,” directed by co-producer Margaret...

Author: By Alexandra A Mushegian, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Model Minority: ‘Identities’ Takes Runway | 4/6/2007 | See Source »

...Harvard,” says a crew cut-sporting Yale student, “We’re gonna recycle your mom, and your grandma, and your children. Booyah. And we’re gonna save your grandpa. For later.” It’s Feb. 1 in Yale’s Beinecke Plaza, and Yalies are taking turns filming a poorly edited video, dubbed a “Taunt,” that now sits on the Web site for the Yale Student Taskforce for Environmental Partnership. It’s understandable that Yalies would...

Author: By Jeremy D. Hoon, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Take THAT, Yale | 3/14/2007 | See Source »

...Hurdles remain, however. The taint of old fogeyism, though fading, clings to the company like the scent of grandma's wisteria. Trendy advertisers, for example, still eschew Saga Magazine, despite its impressive circulation. Although the monthly runs features on still-cool celebs like Carly Simon and Mick Jagger, it's crammed with ads for retirement properties and orthopedically therapeutic furniture. In order to combat that perception, Saga is planning a brand overhaul designed by ad agency Doner Cardwell Hawkins. "It will stress our core strengths to a new generation," says Bull, but beyond that, no one at Saga will talk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Golden Years Rule | 2/15/2007 | See Source »

...Antique Perhaps pinching ideas from grandma's parlor, or else the movie Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Dutch master Marcel Wanders delivers a witty take on chintz. His New Antique collection for Capellini is cool yet cozy - some combination. "We can no longer fall in total awe at a tube being bent," he declares, explaining his elegantly playful antimodernism. www.capcon.it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Whitewash | 2/6/2007 | See Source »

...People's Open House" be invitation-only could paint her as cynical or, with the right spin, as simply a savvy realist. A successful reintroduction for Pelosi should combine the warm fuzzy of a northern California family woman with the bare-knuckle skills of a backroom pol: the iron grandma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pelosi's Coming-Out Party | 1/3/2007 | See Source »

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