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...example, the contemplation of how Oskar might train his anus to speak instead of fart is just one of a multitude of Oskar’s fantasized inventions. Another is a birdseed shirt, so that when wingless humans need to “make a quick escape,” birds, pecking at the seed, can lift the wearer away from danger. A third is an elevator which stays in the same place while the skyscraper it serves moves up and down so that “if you’re on the ninety-fifth floor, and a plane...

Author: By Cara B. Eisenpress, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Foer's Book 'Incredibly Close' to 9/11 | 4/8/2005 | See Source »

Then I noticed Lamont A. James ’08. Clad in a yellow t-shirt, standard-issue Harvard lanyard hanging from his neck, the Canaday resident was playing a video game (“Perfect Dark”) by himself...

Author: By Jannie S. Tsuei, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: NOT THE ONLY WAY | 4/7/2005 | See Source »

...warm March day, five human teams tied to wooden sleighs and 1,049 ounces of beer greeted t-shirt sporting spectators outside the Science Center for the first annual human dogsled race...

Author: By Steven A. Mcdonald, CRIMSON CONTRIBUTOR | Title: Students Race the Iditarod, Win Beer | 4/7/2005 | See Source »

...lingered. On my desk: leftovers from late-night food. On my computer: a facebook message in which a boy I’d met that night had invited me to “celebrate senior spring the RIGHT way,” complete with phone number. On me: the shirt I’d gone...

Author: By Joelle Hobeika, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: What Did You Do Last Weekend? | 4/7/2005 | See Source »

...transformed the appeal of handmade clothes into an economic-redevelopment model with her Project Alabama line. Chanin is a former film stylist (she handled costumes) who, while on hiatus in New York City, needed an outfit for a party. That's when she deconstructed and refashioned a T shirt using the quilt-stitching techniques that she learned growing up in the Appalachian foothills of northern Alabama. Individual style soon turned into a high-demand fashion business. She eventually created a line of dresses, skirts, jackets and T shirts, but she couldn't find anyone in New York to hand render...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Style Watch | 3/28/2005 | See Source »

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