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...forest, the witch Madge (Melanie Atkins)—who had taken offense when James had ousted her from the wedding festivities earlier—gives James a magical scarf that will help him capture the sylph. Unfortunately, the scarf is poisoned, causing the sylph to lose her wings, go blind, and slowly die. At the end of the show Effie and James’ friend Gurn (John Lam) are married. “La Sylphide,” with its heart-wrenching ending, showed not only the beauty of chasing after an ideal, but also the losses of such...
...show, the most impressive example was also its best moment. As the sylph clutched her heart and died, it appeared as if that was the last moment of beauty in the ballet. But her depicted resurrection was a stunning aesthetic moment: Laying on the ground, covered in the translucent scarf that poisoned her, she was slowly elevated through the trees of the forest until she was out of sight. Meanwhile, the rest of the sylphs that inhabited the forest mourned for her in a funeral procession through the trees, under her floating corpse...
...realist, I know I can never be President, will never be part of the American hairistocracy. The presidency is not one of those high-profile jobs in which you can sneak by with a paisley head scarf (think Steven Van Zandt of the EStreet Band) or a pompadour wig (think Steven Van Zandt of The Sopranos...
...Birkenstocks reigned supreme. If you want to try the uber-prep look, I offer you... THREE TIPS: 1) Pair the blazer with something a little but more punky, like skinny jeans. You don’t want to look completely like an admissions catalog. 2) Try to wear a scarf with your blazer. The silhouette should be European and cosmopolitan, not country club. 3) Perhaps this jacket will replace that awful quilted Burberry jacket with the plaid collar that you have sitting in your closet. I sure hope so. —Staff writer Rebecca M. Harrington can be reached...
Looking informed about Palestinian solidarity has never been so easy. Combining style with global enlightenment, a new contender has emerged to replace the Che Guevara T-shirt: the kaffiyeh (pronounced kuh-FEE-yeh), a multipurpose traditional Arabic head scarf. “The new it accessory—a breezy, global-chic scarf,” Teen Vogue raves. Not quite. As a Cambridge fall fashion item, the kaffiyeh is neither breezy nor global-chic. It’s just ugly. Some of Harvard’s most fashion-inclined wrap it around their necks like a glorified scarf rather...