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...German sports cars. Superseding the capital's dictator-chic hotels from the 1970s--massive concrete towers with prostitutes in the bars and spies in the lobbies--modern boutique inns are sprouting in renovated courtyard palaces of the Old City. Among Syria's élite, the Baathist-apparatchik look--leather jacket, bell-bottoms, cigarette holder--is giving way to skinny jeans and cappuccinos...
...shouldn’t come as a surprise that Harvard, with its ivy-covered buildings and portrait-covered walls, is the epitome of New England pomp (or charm; call it what you will). But button-down shirts tucked into khakis, wool sweaters worn over collared shirts, and tweed jackets with suede elbow patches? Such spruce style goes against every notion I have of what it means to be male and in college. After some digging through The Crimson’s archives, I realized that varsity sweaters and schoolboy blazers are just as central to the pretense of the school...
...made his name in the phantasmagorically staged world of pro wrestling and then parlayed his fame into roles in Hollywood action films, including Predator, The Running Man and Batman & Robin. Plus Ventura's appeal to populist sympathies and his downscale campaign wardrobe--faded jeans, scuffed sneakers, an occasional camouflage jacket and bush hat--belied the fact that he is a wealthy man. He lives with his wife of 23 years, Terry, and a teenage son and daughter on a 32-acre horse farm in the suburbs of Minneapolis. Posted above the front door of his red brick colonial house...
...remember the video for Take on Me. A woman finds herself sucked into a poorly drawn black-and white-comic strip, where she quickly falls in love with an animated, mullet-wearing gent in a leather jacket. The two of them are then inexplicably chased by a team of pipe wrench-wielding motorcycle racers dressed like Muttley from Wacky Races. He protects her and soon escapes his monochrome prison. The song's buoyant synth lines rejoice. The video is so easily mockable that Family Guy, predictably, took its own crack...
...painfully hilarious. By contrast, the scenes in “How to Lose Friends”—Sidney ruining a party by bringing a pig on a leash, or coughing so hard that he spits a large wad of food onto a woman’s white jacket (without her noticing, naturally)—are so manufactured, outlandish, or cliché that they lose their link to reality and irritate rather than amuse. There are some mildly interesting plot twists involving the identity of Alison’s boyfriend and the emergence of Lawrence, Sidney?...