Word: kimono
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...Lauryn Hill wins five Grammys, record for a woman artist; Shania Twain wears skimpy outfit, Madonna kimono...
With Stephen Spielberg's recent purchase of therights to the movie and the antics of America'sfavorite pop icon, Madonna the simplecinderella-like plot of Memoirs promises tobe the year's great multimedia phenomenon. Ms.Ciccone appeared on the February cover ofHarper's Bazaar clad in a black kimono(Jean Paul Gaultier) and with the pale face, darkhair and red lips characteristic of a geisha. Inthe article "Like A Geisha," written by DaisanMcLane, Madonna likens what she does to "being amodern-day geisha...
...devotes the bulk of the book to the becoming. Golden has done an exquisite job of research. His comprehensive knowledge of the world of a geisha adds verisimilitude as Sayuri describes her reactions to her increasing knowledge of a geisha's life. Her descriptions of how to wear a kimono, or what a geisha's daily lessons are like, or how a geisha is expected to behave in the presence of men are among the best passages in the book: educational, yet highly engaging...
...coveted press pass to hear Winston Churchill speak in the Yard and then receive an honorary degree in Sanders Theatre on September 6, 1943. Churchill wore a grey suit with a black bow tie, Oxford hat and a red academic gown which draped around him like a kimono. The academic ceremony pulled out all stops, from the magnificent sheriff of Middlesex County to then-president James B. Conant '14 awarding the degree in his nasal voice: "by virtue of the authority delegated...
...foreign companies go bankrupt" after which "American companies could then assume control of the market...and the United States would be free to extract economic rents indefinitely." This is a clear contradiction; the benefits of competition are presumably the same, whether in the US computer industry or the Japanese kimono market...