Word: inners
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From Vogue editor-at-large Andre Leon Talley’s dramatic duds, to the urban-chic attire of inner-city fashionistas, black expression and creativity through fashion lives even today. Interestingly, some elements of the unique assemblage that has characterized black culture have even seeped into the mainstream. Casual hip-hop attire, for example, which was born out of a predominately black movement, has taken catwalks by storm and invaded the closets of millions worldwide...
...poised on the edge of what might become a revival that will bring about big changes in the world. Historically, social reform often requires spiritual revival. And that's what church historians always say about real revival - that it changes things in the society, not just in people's inner lives. I believe that what we are seeing now may be the beginning of a new revival - a revival for justice...
...three-day riot in 2001, hundreds of young Asian men destroyed dozens of white-owned businesses, straining relations between the city's 15% Pakistani population and its white residents. Working for Education Bradford, the private company that runs Bradford's schools, Angie Kotler noticed that the inner-city students, who are over 90% nonwhite, had little contact with the students attending the majority-white schools on the periphery. So she set up the Schools Linking Project, twinning schools and having their students meet up regularly to play sports, put on an opera or plant an allotment. "The younger kids...
...stories of her family’s sea voyage and the early days of their settlement in Canada, the anecdotes seem arbitrary and perfunctory, ending before they begin. There is little sense of place or vivid evocation of experience, and Munro’s attempts to imaginatively create an inner life for her characters seem flat. There is mention of a brother’s friendship with a rich man’s ailing young daughter aboard the ship, and of a son’s bitter grief over his father’s death, but partly because there...
...Wednesday was Valentine’s Day, many of us observed a different holiday: S.A.D.—Singles Awareness Day. Despite constant repetition of the mantra “Valentine’s Day is a Hallmark scam,” we spent the day in secret, inconsolable inner turmoil. Now that the weekend is here, we can finally take advantage of that tried and true emotional balm: alcohol. And what better way to enjoy our loneliness than with a bottle of pink champagne (or any spirituous beverage), and the 2004 romantic tragedy “Closer...