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...college. I left my job at The Wall Street Journal at the end of this summer with a whole bag of neat promotional items, which my editor had wrangled out of the advertising sales staff I gave my dad the magnetic paperweight with sculptable metal pieces in the shape of world currency, including yen and deutsche marks, but I kept the CD case for myself...
...Roll-like waitresses sport white and red sequined rock 'n' roll jackets and short skirts. Large parties are invited to sit in private dining rooms enclosed by Japanese paper screens, while smaller groups sit at either American-style tables or Japanese cushioned platforms, which are collectively in the shape of a boat with a carved-out floor for the dangling legs of hungry, snooty patrons...
...hippies and afro-puffed Black Panthers. A person who gives each strand of hair the freedom to grow from its follicle--to find its own path from the scalp to the sky--is a rarity. Harvard has a few students who understand the Zen principles behind Big Hair. Some shape their hair, while others let their hair shape them. Here, some of Harvard's Big Hair population discuss the give-and-take that goes on each day between head and hair, between what's upstairs and what's way upstairs...
...picked by a passel of fashion-conscious, private-label designer jeans and edgy upstarts in the $10.6 billion industry. The new entrants have hit the shelves with stylish cuts attractive to both teens and folks north of 20. "It's not about the brand of the jeans but the shape," explains Gasner. "Jeans are always in style, but the style changes, and it's the fashion that counts...
...ironic titles in this series act out, and mock, the social structures she depicts in her more straight-forward anthropological work. Some deal with romance and male-female relationships, such as "Am I Pretty?" an arrangement of seven stag beetles on pebble-wall. One beetle holds a yellow star-shape bead meant to represent a crown. The human cult the beauty pageant is played out by Norfleet's arthropod actors...