Word: spokenness
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Although the bespoke service (the term comes from the English tradition of setting aside a client's fabric, which was said to be "spoken for") is limited to Rome and Milan and accounts for only 3% of Brioni's sales, Angeloni says it's what differentiates the brand from others. Today most of the company's business is in off-the-rack suits, priced from $2,600 and available in the same quality fabrics and with the same buttons used for the bespoke versions. A quarter of the company's 1,600 employees worldwide are trained tailors. About...
...minutes, from Orlando International Airport to my temporary home at the Holiday Inn, could easily have been the subject of an episode of Larry David’s HBO series, “Curb Your Enthusiasm.” There was not a single word of English spoken between my new Venezuelan, Dominican and Puerto Rican teammates. I would venture to say that there were at least five good laughs at the expense of the white kid in the back with the “Harvard Baseball” t-shirt on. I have no doubt that I will spend...
...crazy about the Crash win. During the acceptance speech, musical director Bill Conti seemed to be indicating the vexation of a minority in the room when he brought up the orchestra volume before Haggis could say his piece. (This year, the orchestra played softly through each of the spoken thank-you speeches, making the winners? comments sound like song cues in an old musical.) But Haggis had been on stage earlier, as a Screenplay winner. Besides, his victory was unique, at least to lovers of Oscar trivia. He became the first person to have written two consecutive Best Pictures (after...
...Meer ’06 and Armen I. Yerevanian ’08, the act consisted of a male dancer who wrapped his legs around another dancer’s neck and was whipped around the stage in a circle. The Tabla Ensemble, a group of four drummers, combined spoken word lyrics with pulsating rhythms. Sketches satirizing Indian culture bookended acts like the Raas Gujarati dance, which was performed with sticks. Tickets for Ghungroo were in high demand. The Saturday night performance was sold out in less than two days, according to Ghungroo co-producer and SAA co-president Arjun...
...faculty and administrative ranks; by definition (despite our occasional complaints about salaries), professors and deans are not poor, whereas they may be black, female, immigrant, Muslim, musical, or mathematically inclined. In all of the discussion over the past several years about the Summers presidency, almost no faculty member has spoken publicly about his low-income student initiative; this group lacks spokespersons on campus...