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...Schuyler O. Mann ’05’s love nest is inconspicuous in leopard print. And that’s just the sheets: As a sophomore, Mann constructed a loft, ladder, and queen-sized bed frame from scratch to give him and his roommate more space. Eventually, the ladder thing got old. Today, his room in Claverly features the same wooden bed frame—now sawed in half so that it sits on the floor. He’s added an air mattress to go along with the leopard print sheets, which were, he admits, a gift...
...public art that extends back to an October evening in 1959, when Allan Kaprow debuted his 18 Happenings in 6 Parts at New York’s Reuben Gallery. According to RoseLee Goldberg in Performance Art: From Futurism to the Present, Kaprow built three small rooms in a loft, filled them with chairs, and herded the audience from room to room showing them disjointed actions like a woman standing still “for ten seconds, left forearm raised, pointing to the floor” or two “performers reciting monosyllabic words.” Kaprow thought that...
...first two tries, Schindel could not loft the ball past the six-yard line. Sophomore backup Clem McDavid replaced him after Harvard’s third score, but fared even worse in his effort, breaking the 14-yard line just once and failing to reach the 20 just as often...
Attention college shoppers. You too, Mom and Dad. The days of using cinder blocks to loft the bed, remnant carpeting to cover the floor and the oldest sheets in the linen closet to adorn the dorm-room bunk have gone the way of the slide rule. This year the university set is expected to have spent $26 billion on back-to-college wares, including clothes, books, stereos and computers. But fully $1 out of every $10 spent--$2.6 billion--went into decorating the dorm. Today's college send-offs, who have watched their parents refinance and remodel their homes...
...When I went back there for Christmas last year I noticed that everyone was listening to the Carpenters and Burt Bacharach too," he says, sitting in his loft-like showroom in Manhattan's trendy meat-packing district. Despite his fondness for Western things like '70s light music, Panichgul says his love of fashion, as well as his reserved, almost conservative sensibility, reflects his Eastern origins. "There is definitely an Asian influence in me; I just don't know where it's coming from...