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Under the veteran direction of Naeemah White-Peppers, postwar New Orleans lurches into being, subtle jazz languishing on the breeze before fading into silence. The simple home of Stanley (Ari Appel '03) and Stella (Christine Nichols '01) Kowalski, rendered in a pastiche of gritty realism and abstract whimsy by designer Pete Wilson '99, becomes a battle ground where Stanley and Blanche DuBois (Sara Newbold '00), Stella's indigent sister, square off in a frantic struggle for survival...
...rises to moments of animal force, but these pass as quickly as they come; Appel flits between an appealing, carnal alternative to the decaying Southern gentry of the Belle Reve and a brutish cartoon of an abusive husband. Of the three main characters, the most appealing is Nichols's Stella...
Seductive and forgiving, she is a woman who rejects her past and chooses to create a future for herself and her new family. Aroused by Stanley's sexual potency and reveling in the simpler pleasures of life, Stella defends her choices to her sister's accusations, saying, "I'm not in anything I want to get out of." Wedged between Blanche's hysterics and Stanley's violence, Nichols provides a quiet, steady compassion that serves as a foundation for the fizzling explosions going off around...
...With reporting by Stella Kim/Seoul and Douglas Waller/Washington
...tees at first," says John Eshaya, who founded and designs for Jet. "But now they're eating them up." Bloomingdale's, for one, has set up "T-Zones" in its 25 stores nationwide. Newer styles are featuring prints, rhinestones and appliques, while some high-end designers, such as Stella McCartney for Chloe and Helmut Lang, have been showing, and selling, tees that can cost as much as $300. The big question is, How you gonna keep T shirts down at the Gap, now that they've seen Barneys...