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HONG KONG Local celebrities Deniso Ho and Li Xiao Ran covet pastel shades of Christian Dior's Addict Pearl Shine lip gloss...
...saucy brand of ironic fashion sense. It is much harder to exemplify irony when you don’t have a mansion left to you for no reason, but these girls do admirably under the circumstances. Often they wear ironically short mini-skirts and cable-knit sweaters in a pastel color. Or, if there’s a theme party, they all ironically wear a bra and a man’s oxford—no matter what the theme is! Ah! How lovely!All of this is done while ironically swigging beer and looking for a husband. Now that?...
...painting in the rolling farmland he has known since childhood. And he has gone native again, just as much as he ever did in California, although this time it's in the place he's native to. In California Hockney was all about brightly striped shirts and mismatched pastel socks. Bridlington Hockney goes in for charcoal tweeds and plaid slippers. The blond hair has gone gray. The big round eyeglasses have been exchanged for wire ovals. His socks match. Hockney has begun looking like a man who has found his psychological default mode. It's the eternal English householder...
...subheading. Ravi Shankar’s sitar—a Hindustani traditional violin-like instrument—strummed in the background and combined beautifully with a fantastic red light splashed onto the stage, where Brandeis University students performed the opening “Tarana” dance. Wearing pastel pinks and blues and hair twisted into flower-accented French braids, the girls danced in the style of Bharatnatyam—an Indian classical and geometrically graceful dance genre that dates back to 4000 B.C.—and skillfully embodied the spirit of a traditional Indian village...
...This song is the first love song I wrote about my wife, after I had actually seen her,” murmured John Darnielle as he began the Mountain Goats’ set at last Thursday night’s show. I settled into my pastel-green cushioned seat in Remis Auditorium at the Boston MFA, comforted by the anticipation of an untainted love-song, albeit concerned: what did he write about her before they...