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...Maria J. Dominguez, deputy director of PBHA and the director of the Harvard Stride Rite program, stressed the importance of recognizing students for their hard work to improve the community...
Will black-lace-trimmed purple panties play in Peoria? Why not? Cool is the common denominator of teens everywhere. "Torrid makes it so you don't want to hate yourself," says Maria Gutierrez, 17, who recently drove 40 miles to the Brea store to look for a prom dress. The challenge for Torrid is to stay true to its mission: to serve disenfranchised customers, like Gutierrez, who want to fit in but also want to stand out. --With reporting by Deborah Edler Brown/Brea
...introduction to Take My Advice: Letters to the Next Generation From People Who Know a Thing or Two, James L. Harmon muses upon the birth of his brainchild, which he generously likens to an updated version of Rainer Maria Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet. Harmon wonders, “What would Rilke say in those years leading up to the twenty-first century, to an angry, cynical, ironic, black-clad, café-dwelling, cigarette-puffing, wannabe-artist poseur like me? I wanted to find...
...terminal, they follow a twisted path around a static circle spoked by bus bays for arrivals and departures. As a result, the building possesses a dynamic interface between the passengers and their transport. This subtle bending of rigid shapes lends their models a palpable warmth, as realized in their Maria Colonel apartment block designed in the mid-1970s in Seville. The outer structure is angular and somewhat abrasive, but the courtyard within is organic and comforting, having been constructed in the shape of a kidney or an artist’s palette...
...DIED. MARIA FELIX, 88, glamorous Mexican film star whose perfect beauty got her discovered as she was walking down the street and catapulted her to international stardom; in Mexico City. A self-taught actress, Felix portrayed a collection of fierce women in such films as La Generala and Enamorada. Her own life was similarly feverish--she married five times and dated a succession of lovelorn painters, writers and musicians...