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Throughout the trunk show, he refers to specific girls whose personal style seems to exert an influence. Holding up a shirt: "[sizes] 2-10, flat-to-boob, everyone has looked great in it. Hobbs [Ashley R. Hobbs ’06] was wearing it with jeans earlier." Of a rack of suits: "Alexa [L.M. Von Tobel ’06] got a pantsuit and a skirt suit for recruiting." Each mention of one of their friends piques the girls’ excitement, and they grab more from the racks. "Because of your blockmates, there are, like, 70 pieces lying...
...their closets. Of that amount, $11,000 went toward a 9-ft. by 9-ft. master closet. A cabinet holds 48 pairs of shoes on quartersawn white oak; a four-slotted drawer, up to 30 belts. There is another drawer to display six watches, an upper rack for designer knits, a lower one for casual knits. And there is enough room now to survey all the clothes they own in a glance. "I forgot about half of my clothes before we moved here," says Sacco, a residential designer. "If I can't see it, I won't wear it." Says...
...means of the artist's choice." These avant-garde icons, complete rejections of the traditional hierarchy that put painting as the most important art form, are all on show: the snow shovel (In Advance of the Broken Arm), the urinal (Fountain), the Bicycle Wheel, the Hat Rack and the bearded reproduction of the Mona Lisa (L.H.O.O.Q., which is a racy double entendre in French). How did Duchamp choose his objects? On "visual indifference," he once said, "as well as a total absence of taste, good or bad." The Dadaists loved words, and the Pompidou show displays rooms full of them...
...several thousand bikes to the military and other government agencies as well as to a number of foreign armies. Civilians shouldn't despair: they too can buy the camouflage-colored Paratrooper direct from Montague ($650) or at specialty shops. The only thing missing from the peaceful version: a gun rack. --By Sally B. Donnelly
...less happy scenario, it may also make sense if your other debts are so out of control that consolidating them into one lower-interest loan is the only way to crawl out from under. But, financial planners warn, if you're using your home to reduce debt, don't rack up more debt once everything is paid...