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...Allerleirauh used mainly dark colors and lots of leather - a material that was hard to come by in the G.D.R. and that the designers would pick up straight from the manufacturers. Photos on display in the Berlin exhibition show the clothes against a backdrop of old staircases and rundown gray façades, making for a dark fairytale-like mood full of neo-Romantic pathos. "We somehow loved the morbidity of the G.D.R.," filmmaker Wilms recalls. "But it was only the façades that were crumbling; the people were young and beautiful...
Vietnamese artist Nguyen Trong Niet, an 85-year-old painter who has lived most of his life in a rundown flat in Hanoi's Old Quarter, proudly says he painted Muong Kuong Market years ago in his living room, which is also his bedroom and kitchen. The vibrant lacquer brushwork of the piece exquisitely captures the bustle of market day in a Vietnamese village. The Vietnam Museum of Fine Arts, the country's national art museum, thought so too. Officials there snapped up the painting for their collection, and for the past 40 years, Niet's work has been hanging...
...nomination, the search was on for clues to the "real" David Souter. And everyone came up with the same opaque portrait: he was a solitary man, given to serious reading - Shakespeare, Dickens, Proust - and mountain trail hiking. Since the age of 11 he had lived in the same rundown farmhouse near Concord, N.H. Still unmarried at age 50, there was no evidence he was gay - something plenty of people on both sides of the divide investigated as soon as he was nominated...
...true Harvard fashion of over-intensity, this round of Assassins brought out the best in Harvard students—a bizarre combination of creepiness and mis-directed ingenuity. And FlyBy has your rundown of some of the more outrageous kills, characters, and shoot-outs—after the jump...
...Mets just moved from Shea Stadium, an old and rundown ballpark that was commonly described as a "dump," to sparkling new Citi Field. Do you miss Shea? I miss Shea. I've got no memories at Citi Field. All my memories are at Shea...