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...mail. “The real unifying thread is the water. Almost all the stories ‘bend’ to the water in some way, use it in some way, are amplified by it in some way. The water acts symbolically or metaphorically or??sometimes just as water.” LOVE IN THE POOL Accordingly, the staff of this production of “Metamorphoses” built a pool of water in which much of the action of the play takes place. The construction of the pool was a major undertaking, according...
After graduation in 1985?fewer than one-third of Hermann's classmates were women?there were three job offers for every student. Hermann turned down an entry-level post at L'Or??al in order to supervise special projects at the Comit Colbert, a luxury-goods trade association. (Maureen Chiquet, Chanel's global CEO, who is the same age as Hermann, started at L'Or??al as a brand manager for hair color.) When a L'Or??al director inquired why Hermann went elsewhere, she told him, "I didn't want to spend my days selling shampoo in the south...
...students signed up, less than a fifth of the number that administrators expected. The problem, rather obviously, was that most students would rather take a longer vacation to decompress from the pressures of academic life than squirrel themselves away in a frost-encrusted dorm doing problem sets and essays or??worse yet—nothing worthwhile at all. The other alternatives for J-term activities—community service, research, or travel—would probably be much more alluring to undergraduates, but would likely require far greater financial support from the College. Indeed the Committee stressed travel...
Unilever isn't the only company playing to women who want to look good but still look their age. L'Or??al Paris, for example, markets skin-care products targeted to women in their 30s, 40s, 50s and 60s. "It's all about looking your best at any age," says Carol Hamilton, president of L'Or??al Paris. Last spring the company signed the actress Diane Keaton, 61, to be the spokeswoman for Age Perfect Pro-Calcium skin cream, a product for "mature, fragile skin...
...People misunderstand is that the gay-related humor I share with some of my close male heterosexual friends has far more to do with the enjoyment of a good joke than with homophobia. It goes without saying, of course, that we are “post-homophobic” (or??and here I must give credit to blockmate Jeremy Hartman—“PoHoMoPho”). Simply put, for me it is a given that the value my straight-boy friends place on me has fundamentally nothing to do with my being gay. And while...