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...alligator-adorned polo shirt, and Sebago, of Docksides fame, have relaunched their hallmark items with a modern flavor. Retailers like Urban Outfitters, which rode the grunge wave in the past decade, are stocking up on such preppy classics as candy-colored ribbon belts and wood-handled Bermuda bags. Isaac Mizrahi showed preppy-inspired outfits, right, from his latest collection last week in New York City--available at Target stores. Even home-furnishings designers like Jonathan Adler are bringing back preppy classics, including needlepoint pillows, above left. But today's version of the look is not a holdover from the 1980s...
Four albums into a career as ne'er-do-well inheritors to the mantle of ne'er-do-well college rockers Pavement, this Washington State trio has produced its first truly lovely song. Lead singer Isaac Brock crows about various misadventures that inevitably melt away ("Even if things get a bit too heavy/We'll all float on") while the rest of the band makes bouncy, happy noises in the background. It's how Nick Drake's Pink Moon might have turned out if ol' Nick had been just a little happier. Perfect for a backyard sing-along as summer...
...dominant force in the publishing house Farrar, Straus and Giroux; in New York City. An heir to the Guggenheim fortune, he teamed up with John Farrar to form one of America's most prestigious independent publishers, whose roster of celebrated authors included T.S. Eliot, Nadine Gordimer and Isaac Bashevis Singer. "Newspapers wrap up fish," he once said. "Books are in the library forever...
Sometimes a robotic performance is a good thing. Like when you're one of the droids playing opposite WILL SMITH in this summer's I, Robot, a futuristic thriller based on Isaac Asimov's stories. Unlike his "recluse technophobe" character, Smith is an avowed technophile. "I need the latest updates, state-of-the-art everything," he says. In the film, his detective, Del Spooner, has reason to be wary--he's pursuing a robot suspected in a homicide. Some of the robots are portrayed by actors whose expressions are then digitally replicated on the faces of computer-created characters...
...paradigm on this subject equates crowds with mindless mobs (the bigger the mob, the dumber and more dangerous)--think of lemmings or the Gadarene swine that Jesus sent off the cliff. The old paradigm, no doubt elitist and authoritarian, cherishes the brilliant individual (Leonardo da Vinci or Isaac Newton, who reinvented the universe while hiding from the plague in a country house...