Word: matting
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...house of design threw down its welcome mat for the matriarch of another as the Graduate School of Design (GSD) honored Rei Kawakubo of fashion mainstay Comme des Garons last Wednesday for "pushing the proverbial design envelope." Rei may draw outside the lines, but certainly the GSD's award ceremony held in her honor did not. Despite the celebrity element, the event proved to be austere and somewhat dull, probably less interesting than the classes normally held in the recently redone but still stark Gund Hall. The casual attendee yearned for a supermodel or two strutting down the aisles catwalk...
With so many character dynamics, the wonderful set design of Mat Williams wonderful set design allows the action to flow smoothly to keep up the pace. Williams' set, a sprawling pastel representation of the Jerome household in Brighton Beach, Borough of Brooklyn, City of New York, simultaneously creates five realistic (and believable) rooms on stage-a rare accomplishment in the Ex. The lighting of Ali Davis '00 subtlety focuses the audience's attention on specific conversations and moments without sacrificing the naturalism of the production...
Corporations are always quicker to forgive than countries. And Gaddafi has thrown out a welcome mat for hundreds of executives from Britain, France, Italy, Russia, China and Canada. Lured by the country's nearly $12 billion in annual oil revenue, they've flocked to Tripoli's few good hotels looking for deals--big ones. One of many companies on the ground is Airbus, the European aircraft consortium, which is primed to sell 24 passenger jets worth at least $1.5 billion to Libya's national carrier. That kind of uncontested sale does not sit well in Seattle, where Boeing is based...
Mick Foley, a.k.a. the wrestler Mankind, is the author of Have a Nice Day and appears in the documentary Beyond the Mat...
...documentary that had been scheduled to air during UPN's SmackDown! and USA Network's Sunday Night Heat and Raw Is War, the movie's producers sensed a bid to kill their film. Imagine Entertainment says McMahon has sour grapes because it wouldn't let him buy Beyond the Mat, which was nominated for a Director's Guild award in the Best Director category. A WWF spokesman claims it's a publicity stunt, and the company has a policy of not airing "third-party" wrestling events during scheduled matches. So why did the WWF agree to promote the film...