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...Part of the project of creating a visual image of waterboarding in the space of the theater, which is very much a visual space, is to highlight the present absence of documentary visual evidence of waterboarding," Skier adds in an interview with FlyBy...
...Part of the project of creating a visual image of waterboarding in the space of the theater, which is very much a visual space, is to highlight the present absence of documentary visual evidence of waterboarding," Skier adds in an interview with FlyBy...
...Societies of the World 19: "Western Ascendancy: The Mainsprings of Global Power from 1600 to the Present...
...rule has perennially met with resistance from high-fashion quarters. As far back as the 1920s, Coco Chanel made white a year-round staple. "It was a permanent part of her wardrobe," says Bronwyn Cosgrave, author of The Complete History of Costume & Fashion: From Ancient Egypt to the Present Day. The trend is embraced with equal vigor by today's fashion élites, Cosgrave notes - from Marion Cotillard accepting her 2008 Academy Award in a mermaid-inspired cream dress to Michelle Obama dancing the inaugural balls away in a snowy floor-length gown. Fashion rules are meant to be broken...
Much to the chagrin of sartorial purists, that skepticism of the Labor Day law has seeped into mainstream America. From 1960s counterculture to the present day - when would-be fashionistas get as many ideas from blogs and friends as from magazines and Fashion Week - more people than ever are breaking the rule. Even the 2004 manners bible, Emily Post's Etiquette, 17th Edition, gives the go-ahead for wearing white after Labor Day. Which may explain why some who abide by the custom themselves are now willing to compromise. Scheips, for one, "would never be caught dead wearing a white...