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...stores. Those of us who are linguistically impaired can get English subtitles for the movies; but the extras are in Spanish only. Also, the movies' visual quality ranges from mediocre to muddy. I've seen TV prints of Mexican films from the same period, like Fernández; La Perla and Maria Candelaria, and they gleam. But Las Islas Marias, the Infante-Fernández collaboration in the new collection (and shot, like the other two, by the great cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa), looks like a faded dupe...
...look a thing like Opal Mehta. Opal Mehta didn’t own five pairs of shoes so expensive they could have been traded in for a small sailboat. She didn’t wear makeup or Manolo Blahniks or Chanel sunglasses or Habitual jeans or Le Perla bras. She never owned enough cashmere to make her concerned for the future of the Kazakhstani mountain goat population. I was turning into someone else...
...look a thing like Opal Mehta. Opal Mehta didn’t own five pairs of shoes so expensive they could have been traded in for a small sailboat. She didn’t wear makeup or Manolo Blahniks or Chanel sunglasses or Habitual jeans or Le Perla bras. She never owned enough cashmere to make her concerned for the future of the Kazakhstani mountain goat population. I was turning into someone else...
...utterly pretentious three-story wine tower, Excelsior has some of the best food, wine, and views in the Boston area. Overlooking the Boston Public Garden, the restaurant is sandwiched between two high-end retail stores: the edgy androgynous designs of Sonia Rykiel and the sexy luxe lingerie of La Perla...
Leave the La Perla at home. Without individual stalls, the communal changing room is a feeding frenzy of women disrobing in the open, so modest underwear may be a better choice. Stake out a corner and don’t worry: everyone is too focused on their own perceived flaws to notice...