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...first of the three incidents of racial graffiti, resident tutor David Porter, who is Black, found the word "nigger" scrawled across the name card on his door last month...
When you hear the word French, you may think of elegance, hauteur and haute couture. When Robert Altman hears the word, he thinks of farce, polluted rivers and dog doo under everyone's foot. Pret-a-Porter (Ready to Wear) is the director's long-winded hate letter to the fashion industry and those who cover it. The film is a flaccid mess, missing its easy targets. It is also undiluted Altman -- a movie that sums up his attitude toward actors, audiences, the press, humanity. When you hear the word contempt, you think of Robert Altman...
Fashion is in a particularly ugly, aimless, self-parodying phase at the moment, so perhaps it deserves a chronicler as cynical as this one. Anyway, a cynic is what it got during the industry's big pret-a-porter shows in Paris last spring, when Altman mingled with the modish elite and found room in his film for many of them: designers Christian Lacroix, Jean Paul Gaultier and Issey Miyake, models Naomi Campbell and Christy Turlington and CNN fashion maven Elsa Klensch...
Last Monday, someone wrote the words "Die Nigger" on the wall above the weight/fitness room sign in the Commons area. About a month ago, David Porter, a Mather resident tutor who is Black, found the word "nigger" scrawled across the name card on his door...
...earlier incident, resident tutor David Porter, who is Black, found the word "nigger" scrawled across the name card on his door in early November...