Word: rags
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...down and tried and write. It was not pretty, and now that the whole thing is over and done with, I'm awful close to throwing in the towel once and for all and forgetting that I ever heard of any two-bit rag called The Crimson...
Conservatives are noticed, and noticeable, because they're about the only ones making noise. When The Rag dropped off the earth, we lost the one consistently provocative voice on the campus left. Titillating in more than just the literal sense, The Rag challenged what people considered decorous, sensitive, tasteful. I miss The Rag, in the same way I'd miss Professor Mansfield if he went off to Chicago or New Haven or Hanover...
...show begins with James Abbott McNeil Whistler's painting, Nocturne in Black and Gold: Rag Shop, Chelsea (c. 1848) He explores the effects of shadow and light, outlining a little girl's illuminated white dress in a dimly lit storefront which encloses her in a veil of darkness. The only representational painting in the exhibit, it anchors the efforts of the later painters in their exploration of tonality in the continuum of degrees of abstraction...
...company survived, thanks to a Vermonthippie's arrival on the scene. He offered to buyall the flowered shirts from the '60s they had.His request made co-owner Bruce Cohen see a futurefor the struggling rag warehouse. "This stuff isactually worth something," he remembers thinking,and the company shifted to the recycled clothingbusiness: Dollar-A-Pound opened in 1980, and whenthe printing company upstairs moved out six yearslater, The Garment District was established...
...therise, beat both Brown and Harvard last year. Theywill feel the loss of second team all-Ivy forwardNatasha Rezak (13.9 points and a league-leading11.7 rebounds per game), who is spending herjunior year studying in Russia. They still returnfour starters, including senior center KatarinaPoulson (12.3 PPG, 6.8 rag) and senior forwardJulia Gabriel (9.1 PPG, 7.7 rag...