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...such, the author would ideally leave the reader to guess at much of what was behind these trends. Instead, Mullan excels in offering rather disparate anecdotes, that fail to cohere as a whole. Those anecdotes, however, are enlightening stumbles for repetition. Had this book been one-third its length, it would have guided the reader along a delightful journey through history. But 374 pages translates to being told, over and over again, that anonymous publishing may be the result of authorial mischief, publicity-seeking, or genuine need for safety.In the epilogue, Mullan finally admits that no bigger themes...
...Parisian fashions, these girls make manifest the clash of present and future in images where kimonos are paired with severely bobbed hair. Titles like “A Stylish Beauty Dressed in a Kimono Standing Beside a Decorated Christmas Tree” and paintings of women wearing mid-calf length daydresses and cloches aboard a sailboat resemble a vintage issue of Vogue, encapsulating the feeling of the era’s unprecedentedly rapid Westernization.The works within “Showa Sophistication” capture the unbridled optimism of a nation, yet harbingers of the forties are visible even amongst...
...Society, the Juilliard School of Music and the School of American Ballet, spent the past 40 years locked inside a squat stretch of travertine that would have been perfect for an FBI fingerprint lab. Completed in 1969 in the design idiom called Brutalism, it ran more than half the length of a city block with hardly a grace note or welcoming gesture. To make matters worse, a heavy pedestrian bridge that connected it to the main Lincoln Center campus, across 65th Street, cast a broad swath of that street into permanent shadow...
...addition to detailed descriptions of the program and a list of support resources, every package includes an individualized statement detailing the recipient’s potential benefits—a figure determined by the employee’s age, salary, and length of service...
Locations of your project and approximate length of stay...