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...company's production to Asia years ago. He's not alone; annual manufacturing shipments of made-in-Canada garments have plummeted more than 35%, to about $4.5 billion, since 2002. "With the rising dollar, we couldn't afford to make everything in this country anymore," says Elliot Lifson, vice chairman of Montreal-based Peerless Clothing, which has outsourced 70% of its production to plants in China, India and Vietnam over the past three years. Once the loonie passed 80¢, the $500 million company, which has exclusive licensing agreements with top designers, including Ralph Lauren, Calvin Klein and Michael Kors...
...Institutional Triangle and Innovation in Japan"--Thomas Lifson, visiting lecturer, Dept. of Sociology. Room 3, Coolidge Hall, noon...
...limited ways of seeing that it imposes, the five artists whose work currently hangs in the Carpenter's lobby have been taking pictures. In the last two years, their steady efforts have brought their talents to flower--any forthcoming fruit promises to be spectacular. "This is," says Ben Lifson, organizer of the show and visiting instructor in VES, "new photography; these guys are real innovators...
...that reason the process of their experimentation, study and growth positively illuminates their work. These still photographs show these artists moving forward. Now masters of technique, free of the supporting framework in which one learns the art of photography, they have not yet put themselves into any stylistic box. Lifson seems to have wanted to exhibit their searchings almost as much as their achievements: "I wanted to show students where they might be in three or four years if they just keep on working," he says...
...pictures he envisioned. The instrument's ability to capture incredibly fine detail and texture has made it a necessary tool of the avant-garde cameraman, and its mastery a challenge he must meet. (All the pictures in this exhibit, except Rubinfien's, were taken with it.) Leaving, as Lifson says, "no place to hide," the superclarity of the camera's vision lends these pictures an uncanny surrealism. The trees in Wing's pictures, or Germano's, have leaves that are leafier than any your eyes perceive. To see like this is frighteningly immediate and imminent; it's like hearing...