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Before his clothing line folded in 1998, fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi starred in Unzipped, the documentary that took his high energy to the screen. Now he has moved it to the stage in a half-sung, half-spoken one-man show off-Broadway. Mizrahi's chief subject is his own glorious past, and he walks a fine line between charm and pathos when he brings out his first sewing machine and warbles about his need for attention His voice won't win any Tony Awards, but the show entertains because of the winning fussiness that made him a fashion legend...
...laughed and turned away. And I went down to the registrar, where I'd dropped classes once before, but the man there said we'd passed the fifth Monday. So in the dorms the students screamed, the first-years cried and the slackers dreamed. Not a happy word was spoken. Our spirits all were broken. And those students I despised most, whose easy schedules made them boast, were so glad that they chose to coast the day midterms arrived...
...survivor of sexual assault." Since I was a kid, perhaps the only thing more difficult than hearing these words is hearing them coming from my own lips. This truth has been with me for a long time and I have never spoken up. I have never reached out. So many acts of sexual assault go unrecognized and unacknowledged on this campus. It is time for all of us to speak up and reach out. I am a survivor of sexual assault...
Alvarez and members of her sorority, the Latinas Promoviendo Comunidad/Lambda Pi Chi Sorority, planned the day of discussion and performance--called "Unsilence the Violence"--to "bring together more of a cross section" of individuals, especially minority students, to discuss sexual violence. Spoken Word Society and other concerned students also helped organize the event...
This message of empowerment carried through into the second component of "Unsilence the Violence"--a two-hour performance of poetry and art, featuring members of Harvard's Spoken Word Society and the BlackOut Boston Collective, a Boston performance group...