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Jack and the Beanstalk this play is not. Children's theater--or theater for young audiences, to use the politically correct term--is growing up. Once a place where community actors donned bright plaid costumes to act out fairy tales for little tykes, it has become a haven for some of the most committed and creative theater people in the country. These venues still draw the biggest crowds with the familiar kiddie favorites, from Charlotte's Web to Go, Dog. Go! But increasingly they are commissioning new works, reaching out to older kids, who typically stop going to theater when...
...market-research firm, estimates that about $80 of the average $300 that each student spends on back-to-school clothes will go to preppier, more conservative apparel. No, teens are not gathering to burn their low-rider jeans, but waistlines are inching back up, and Argyle sweaters and plaid skirts abound. "I'm not saying these girls want to wear turtlenecks and high-waisted pants," says Gina Kelly, fashion director of Seventeen. "They just don't want to look cheesy...
...Sadr rebellion in the south. He sat down last week in Baghdad for an interview with TIME reporter Christopher Allbritton. Iraqi police officers stood nearby, but signs of U.S. patronage were everywhere. Even the air conditioners bore the label PROPERTY OF THE U.S. GOVERNMENT. Dressed in a natty plaid suit, Allawi was alternately avuncular and forceful...
...fashion industry shop talk, writers have said that Pucci’s mod geometry is to Italy what Burberry’s plaid is to England, and what Lilly Pulitzer’s pink and green is to the good old U-S-A. In addition to being sold at Saks, Bloomingdales, Neiman Marcus and Nordstrom department stores, Lilly’s collections are sold in retail venues bearing storefront names such as Tickled Pink, Color Me Pink, The Pink Pineapple, Pink on the Green, The Pink Petunia and Pinkalicious. Perhaps troubleshooting a possible East Coast/West Coast elite divide...
...hold on, now, boys and girls. Don’t throw out your plaid pants and pink polos quite yet. In all likelihood, you—like the rest of Harvard—are secure enough in your superiority that you won’t have...