Word: shirts
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...than kitsch, and second because it has been so often reproduced and discussed by a sensation-hungry and ideology-obsessed art world that its shock value has gone flat. The first time you go into a gallery and see a 7-ft.-high toy bear in a striped T shirt inspecting the whistle of a London cop, all done in painted wood, faithful to the last hair, by some European souvenir manufacturer -- Koons, who probably couldn't carve well enough to do his own initials on a tree, makes none of his stuff himself -- the effect is, well, fairly unsettling...
Royal Miller, playing her lapdog/playboy husband Hector, is as stiff and starched as his shirt. The only time we can understand why squads of women supposedly fall in love with him occurs in a moment when he is leaping about alone on stage and snatches up an imaginary rapier in solitary swordplay, levelling it against a non-existent...
Maybe I've betrayed my ethnicity. Once I tell you that a barong is a stiff cotton shirt that Filipino men wear on formal occasions, you know about as much as I do about the culture of my father's birthplace. Every now and I happen upon that never-worn garment or a few photographs of relatives I barely know, but the paucity of my celebrations suggests that I deserve no prize for my embrace of my Asian-American heritage...
...casual prep values comfort. He wears afaded flannel dress Campbell shirt and jeansgingerly slid below his waist. Of course, he's gotthe overstretched sweater naturally peppered withholes (Don't use scissors. It's too obvious).Then, there's the white Syracuse lax baseball capcocked at a rakish angle and suede moccasins worndown (absolutely no socks). Accessories: wovenstring bracelets, beer pong paddle sticking out ofback pocket...
Before the first full month of fall semesterhas gone by, they fill the Yard with variations onthe First-Year Uniform: hooded Harvard sweatshirton top of a Crew 96 t-shirt; unlaced, oversizedAir Jordans; room card keys strung around theneck. Alternatively, they wear Athletic wear fromU. Homestate. Freshly chopped coiffes...