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...Student Operas this semester and will also be costume designer for the Dunster House Opera The Magic Flute in the spring. Though Waddell worked on costuming in various school musicals before coming to Harvard, her focus has been primarily on fashion. She started making clothes from scratch her first year in high school. Since then designing clothing has been a passion of Waddell's--a passion she was able to actualize in her own fashion show in Kansas City...
...with Giasone. One senses that the Renaissance style was perhaps too much of a departure from Waddell's own vision. "I don't think I'd ever incorporate a pair of knickers in my fashion show," she reflects. Working from a costume stock or building everything up from scratch, Waddell tries to fit each costume not only with the demands of the role but also with personal and artistic ideals. In the long run, Waddell prefers to create her own costumes rather than draw on the resources of a costume stock. This way she is allowed to draw more heavily...
That rafting trip down the Colorado River you were planning? Scratch it. According to a group called the World Water Commission for the 21st Century, more than half the world?s major rivers, including the Colorado, are drying up or oozing with pollution. The commission, supported by the United Nations and the World Bank, is looking for ways to safeguard water supplies for the next century - and it looks like they?ve got their work cut out for them. Although the full findings are under wraps until March, a grim summary of the study, released Monday in Washington, D.C., gives...
Want to know what it's like to be in the Army? Try standing in one place, ramrod straight and perfectly still. If a mosquito bites you, don't slap it. If sweat rolls into your eye, don't wipe it away. And if you scratch your thigh, do 20 push-ups and jump back into position...
...Even when the album was completely recorded, their work far from over. Besides making the album cover and booklet from scratch, Bennett and Warren had to deal with "getting all of [the music] mastered, dealing with the duplication company, coming up with the money, developing the website [www.northhouse.com]. It's very complicated," as Bennett said...