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...picking up know-how from the artisans she bought them off. Not long after, Obin started designing patterns herself, and experimenting with techniques of producing batik, including the use of hand-woven silk instead of the usual cottons. When, at the age of 31, she finally opened a small outlet for her designs in central Jakarta, she became an immediate hit among the élite neighborhood's well-off shoppers. "Obin led a revolution in modernizing batik by translating traditional motifs into contemporary design," explains leading local fashion designer Ghea Panggabean...
...ease, rolling out of the pocket as well as running the option. “That kid doesn’t get sacked,” Harvard coach Tim Murphy said. “I mean, he just throws the ball away, he’s got a quick outlet. We looked at the film of him last year in three different games, and he doesn’t get sacked. He’s obviously a really fine football player.” In last season’s opener against Holy Cross, the Crimson tallied six sacks...
...Machiavelli's later writings, which show an evolution in his thinking. In Discourses, Machiavelli demonstrated a more idealistic outlook, embracing personal liberty, republicanism and good government. King's real achievement comes in his careful appraisal of Machiavelli's lesser-known works - the poems and bawdy plays that provided an outlet for his lascivious imagination and wit. In the play Clizia he mocked the folly of an older man pursuing a younger woman. In the novella The Fable of Belfagor, he speared matrimony by having the protagonist choose the torments of Hell over the anxiety of the "marriage yoke." By examining...
...Cronenberg made his name in the 70s as the perpetrator of cleverly icky films - Shivers, Rabid, The Brood - that found an adult outlet for the fears at the root of the horror genre. His 1986 remake of The Fly still stands as an eloquent treatise on man's determination to cope with a degenerative disease: cancer, AIDS or, in this case, a slavering, 6ft.-tall insect...
RECHARGEABLE Nearly 150 years ago, a French physicist designed a reusable battery using lead dipped in acid. Today, outlet-ready rechargeables are ubiquitous--and a lot safer...