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...hues swathe the street at 10 in the morning. The color scheme is chicly coordinated, as if Jerome Robbins' Sharks and Jets were about to dance onscreen; the picture could be called Bed-Stuy Story, full of Officer Krupkes and kindly store owners. At first, the dilemmas are predictably pastel too: populist cliches brought to life by an attractive cast. Even the racial epithets have a jaunty tinge, as in a series of antibrotherhood jokes made by blacks, Italians, Hispanics, white cops and Korean grocers -- the film's best sequence. On this street there are no crack dealers, hookers...
Akers is also an artist and has been exhibited in various art shows for her pastel paintings and drawings...
...city quickly pulls you into her familiar, exhausting, yet not altogether unpleasant embrace: the slush and mud of the broad avenues; the air that smells of bad cigarettes, carbon monoxide and disinfectant; the monotony of dun-colored buildings; the occasional startling glimpse of a golden-domed church or pastel-walled czarist mansion; the dark masses hurrying by or huddling in their inevitable queues to buy what little is in the stores. Much more than merely familiar, Moscow today seems as immutable, as depressingly eternal as ever...
Harvard Real Estate reveals that its plan to build a hotel on Mass Ave. is only the first step toward turning the campus and Harvard Square into a giant theme park. "We've already got the cobblestone sidewalks, an exciting ride below the street, a pastel-colored information booth and a pool of 6500 eager, clean-cut part-time workers to staff it," officials say. Plans are in the works for Michael Jackson to film a 3-D promotional spot for "Six Flags Over Harvard...
...names on the garment labels conjure up visions of croquet in the English countryside: Jennifer Moore, Christopher Hayes, Morgan Taylor, Charter Club by Jane Justin. The names seem perfectly suited to each designer's personal style as well. Moore proffers the pastel colors of the English garden in her pale pink skirts and sweaters. Taylor is known for undergarments, ranging from emerald green chemises to fuchsia-toned satin slips, which are sold in a boutique filled with Victorian-inspired lace and linen. What shoppers might be surprised to find out, though, is that these designers do not exist. Macy...