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Agatha reaches into a plastic Coop bag and fishes out a sheath of photographs. With great care, she lifts each individual picture from the stack and places them, one by one, on top of a heap of clothing...

Author: By Michael A. Mohammed and Rebecca D. O’brien, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: Harvard Grad Prepares To Leave Home on the Street | 11/15/2002 | See Source »

...place not because of their significance as fashion, but because of the celebrity of those who wore them - Elizabeth Hurley, Princess Diana and Naomi Campbell. To underscore that point, giant portraits of Hurley in the safety-pin dress she made famous and Diana in a powder-blue beaded sheath flank the entrance. The show's emphasis on fame over fashion says a lot about the V&A's reasons for staging it in the first place. When the museum announced last spring that its largest exhibition devoted to a single designer would celebrate Versace, the fashion press asked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fame Trumps Fashion | 10/20/2002 | See Source »

...smile in "8-1/2." Bergman is at the center of the Rossellini segment, as Vitti is of the Antonioni. The emotional peak of the whole opus is an 18-min. pr?cis of "Senso," whose ravishments are incarnated by Valli's gift for reckless passion glowing through a steely sheath. The most poignant moment in "Voyage" is the last scene from "La Dolce Vita": a girl (14-year-old Valeria Ciangottini), her face innocent and knowing, beckons to Mastroianni, and in his wry stupor he waves her entreaties away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Two Voyages to Italy | 6/19/2002 | See Source »

...artificial visual system is called the Microsystem-based Visual Prosthesis (MIVIP) and was designed by Claude Veraart and collaborators at the University of Louvain. The MIVIP consists of a cuff electrode implanted around Marie's right optic nerve. The electrode wraps around the optic nerve like the little plastic sheath on the end of a shoelace. It is connected to a thin cable that snakes its way from the optic nerve exiting the back of Marie's eye and weaves around the outside of her brain to the stimulator implanted in a small cavity in her cranium. The stimulator, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Body Electric | 3/4/2002 | See Source »

...frightening, wardrobe and accessory ideas. Susan Phelps, the friendly 50-something owner of the store, removes any inhibition customers might have with her witty commentary on sensual fashion, masochistic accessories and, of course, sex. Phelps immediately identified FM as a seeker of latex briefs with a penis sheath ($40). “It’s like wearing a condom,” she suggests. “Some people don’t like it because their skin can’t breathe.” FM politely declined and began to examine a section of leather and plastic...

Author: By William L. Adams, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Night, Out of Love | 2/14/2002 | See Source »

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