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...Designs by the label Allerleirauh, founded in 1986 by Katharina Reinwald and Angelika Kroker, and the work of fashion photographers such as Sven Marquart and Sybille Bergemann reflected the atmosphere of decline. Clothes by Allerleirauh used mainly dark colors and lots of leather - a material that was hard to come by in the G.D.R. and that the designers would pick up straight from the manufacturers. Photos on display in the Berlin exhibition show the clothes against a backdrop of old staircases and rundown gray façades, making for a dark fairytale-like mood full of neo-Romantic pathos...
...Real life is a lot like college, Byrnes muses. “You just dick around and dick around and then when something really needs to get done, you mobilize,” he says. But Byrnes and 1998 Harvard Law School (HLS) graduate Jamie W. Marquart were not completely unoccupied during their law school days, as they explain in their new book, Brush With the Law. Marquart developed a gambling habit, while Byrnes spent his time smoking crack and having sex involving—depending on the occasion—one, two or three individuals, sometimes including Harvard undergraduates...
Byrnes, who later married Dawn L. Ebert ’92, has always had a thing for Harvard girls. According to Marquart, the undergraduates at Harvard are less irritating than the HLS students. “All the top five most-competitive fucks from each college go to law school,” he says. “Take your undergraduate experience and make the people more competitive and intense and less creative and you get law school.” He recalls HLS students getting together before they bought books to plan how to pick up undergraduate girls...
...their slacker-lawyer handbook, the work-averse authors include tips on how to obtain reading summaries and avoid classes with mandatory attendance. Still, Marquart and Byrnes are pleased with the way they spent their sizable tuition. “I would recommend law school to anyone,” Byrnes says. “It was a great three-year vacation?...
Although the preface to Brush With the Law includes a letter from a Yale law student warning about the influence flippant books might have on the legal profession, Marquart and Byrnes assure readers that their bons mots are harmless...