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...Ferragamo scarf and a man nearby who loosely sketches polo players for Ralph Lauren. Nearby are the famous archives, stored in an enormous hangar. The archives are organized by style and designer, and walking through the aisles is a heady experience of color fantasy and craftsmanship, a sort of fashion-world memory lane...
...shutout innings in each contest. Part of the success has been due to a change in mental approach as well. “I think that earlier this season, and earlier in my career as a pitcher, I walked a lot of people and that’s been sort of my Achilles heel,” Madick says. “When I don’t walk people, I don’t think I’m getting hit really hard. But it’s been hard getting into the mindset of ‘pitch...
...thinking to myself, ‘It would be great to have some way of sharing these songs with other people because there are very few people who still know Yiddish or study Yiddish and the music is so great. I started playing around with the idea of some sort of performance with these songs, and [as] I learned more about Yiddish theater I just sort of drew up this outline of the show.”“It was basically just me picking out my favorite songs and finding a way to put those together and give...
...whole of society. If only one had made a revelation, it would have been the swift end to their marriage—regardless the performance of the matrimonial act had certainly come to an end—but their mutual admissions had trapped the Viscount and Viscountess in a sort of agonizing stasis. Under such circumstances, there could be few hours in life more painful than those dedicated to the dark ritual of afternoon tea.They only wanted for something—someone, perhaps—to tip the balance.“What will there...
...there, honored her before turning to another woman.”This theme of learning to live, love and lose transnationally—introduced in the work’s opening story—crystallizes in the closing trio of linked stories, which together from a sort of experimental novella. In alternating first-person narration, we’re told a tale of reverse immigration: “Your parents had decided to leave Cambridge, not for Atlanta or Arizona, as some other Bengalis had, but to move all the way back to India, abandoning the struggle that my parents...