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...actually the objects that Salter is writing about but rather perceptions of those objects. The reader is drawn in by these perceptions. Seeing through Salter's eyes, we begin to understand her connections, how her mind works. In "Libretto" images of a record player and a silk couch lead to the past, so we see what these images mean to the narrator...

Author: By Lauren M. Hult, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Hello? It's Elemenary, My Dear | 4/30/1999 | See Source »

People wore such tactile fabrics as leather, vinyl, velvet and silk. Pershouse says an important feature of the event was the "suggestive invitation" that people could send to "their crushes...

Author: By Edward B. Colby, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Life of the Party | 4/16/1999 | See Source »

People wore such tactile fabrics as leather,vinyl, velvet and silk. Pershouse says animportant feature of the event was the "suggestiveinvitation" that people could send to "theircrushes...

Author: By Edward B. Colby, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Variations on a party theme | 4/16/1999 | See Source »

Tuleh, like Robinson and Yates, already shows uptown at New York's semiannual collections. The team's fall '99 presentation, held in February, was a packed affair, with many of the city's major fashion editors present. Down the runway came ruffles and bold silk prints, all part of the duo's protest against fashion's I'm-off-to-my-assembly-line-job-on-a-Mars-colony strain of chic. "There is an overly intellectualized, nihilistic approach to fashion at the end of the century that is predictable and dreary," says Patner, "and why should women be dreary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: America's Next Wave | 4/12/1999 | See Source »

...Didn't CELINE DION realize that a modern accessory like the pimp hat doesn't really work with the classic double-breasted, white-silk suit worn backward? 5 Could this pleasant-looking woman be the same FERNANDA MONTENEGRO who two days after the Academy Awards said Gwyneth Paltrow bagged her Oscar only because she is "thin, pure and virginal" and Life Is Beautiful "didn't deserve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: We Want to Know... | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

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