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...creativity of all our brands than I am with the bottom line." The pressure to create something new, however, is intensified by the pressure to move the huge corporate machine. Even John Galliano and Jean Paul Gaultier, both radical creative catalysts, have had to conform to the corporate spirit of our times. In Galliano's show for Dior, streamlined tweed suits and pared-down chiffon evening dresses in pale shades of gray and pink replaced his signature theatrics...
...nation's largest private charity focusing on breast cancer, urged consumers to start asking questions like how much of the money they spend on pink purchases will actually go to charity, what kind of activities does the charity support and what has its record been? In the same spirit, Breast Cancer Action (BCA), a grass-roots advocacy organization based in San Francisco, offers a consumer-education program and website called Think Before You Pink (think before you pink org) introduced four years ago. Jarmoska decided to give BCA the $5,000 she raised biking cross-country...
...facts” than “World Trade Center.” Somehow, a quasi-fictional portrayal of the hijackings seems less offensive than one offering constant, visceral detail.Greengrass’ characters, while based on the actual passengers of United 93, are nearly nameless. The spirit with which they fight to escape their fate suggests the way other 9/11 victims might have resisted, given the chance, thereby lending a grander sense of purpose to Greengrass’ film. On the other side of the spectrum is Ken Kalfus’ new novel “A Disorder Peculiar...
Though it may seem ironic that Barenboim would speak out against musical specialization to such a specialized audience, the sentiment fits with the spirit of the Charles Eliot Norton Professorship of Poetry, which awards "prominent figures in poetry in the broadest sense...
...should be more aggressive vis-à-vis the administration on issues ranging from extended dining hall hours to the selection of a new president. On many social and political issues, students are left voiceless because the UC stays silent; a new UC could express the general student spirit and opinion. At the same time, the UC would be less radical than the various self-selecting campus interest groups, who would depend upon the UC as a reliable gateway to the administration. Of course, such a drastic overhaul of campus politics cannot happen within the current system of elections. Although...