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...recognized as a medical condition, but Benton suffered from dyslexia, which severely impaired his ability to process written material. What he could do was draw, and the walls of his home were covered with sketches. In fact, drawing was such an important outlet for young Benton that he named one of the main characters in “Bad Company”—a semi-autobiographical film about the break-up of his first writing partnership—“Drew,” the past tense of “draw.” When...
...Nowadays, it’s downright antique, the antithesis of hip. Imagine a communist partygoer, desperately trying to turn the conversation to surplus value over the strains of Soulja Boy’s new single, “Yahhh!” Unlucky fellow.What was once a fiery outlet for leftist political fervor has been spoilt by a suite of suppressive bourgeois mechanisms; in its place slips the anesthetic comfort of supporting Barack Obama, perhaps ‘preferring’ Dennis Kucinich. Students themselves aren’t to blame for this zeallessness, though, but the confluence of events...
...point is that there are real advantages to having your factory in your backyard--from being able to test new fabrics and make changes quickly to fostering collaboration with suppliers on innovations like stain resistance to having a handy place to iron and repackage ties on their way to outlet stores. "We do a lot on the fly, which would be hard to do offshore," says Laura Rowen, director of manufacturing...
...turned to writing because I felt like I had failed at film,” she says. “I think it was the solitary aspect of writing that just really appealed at that point where I felt like I’d lost this other creative outlet. I just wanted something that didn’t involve depending on other people, that could come out of my own head.”The product of Dovey’s imagination, “Blood Kin,” was a much different work, a dark modern-day fable...
Shen started Savory as a creative outlet for a life-long passion. “I’ve been thinking about food since I was little,” he says. After coming to Harvard, however, Shen was unsatisfied with the current publication options with which to pursue his culinary interests...