Word: tailoring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Carmen is a tattooed nightclub singer in a Tina Turner wig who smuggles Uzis after hours. Escamillo, her bullfighting boyfriend, looks as if he's been getting fashion tips from Wayne Newton's tailor. The orchestra is seated onstage, midway between five video screens and six hydraulic lifts; the conductor wears a leather vest, and the director's credits include a stint as Mick Jagger's choreographer. And everybody is miked, from the tenor to the timpani player...
...DIRECTOR In his documentary The Big One, anti-corporate crusader Michael Moore visits Nike CEO Phil Knight to challenge the shoe company's use of cheap Indonesian labor. In the film Knight seems evasive, edgy and ultimately tripped up by Moore's relentless interrogation. But did the filmmaker unfairly tailor Knight's appearance? In an effort to wipe the treadmarks off his reputation, Knight has put outtakes on Nike's Website www.nikebiz.com) There Moore, who comes off as an attack dog in the film, is heard purring to Knight, "I honestly think you're the good...
...novice to garmentmaking. She had attended London's venerable Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, the alma mater as well of John Galliano and Alexander McQueen (designers also snatched up to oversee ailing French houses). For extra training during her school years, she served as a tailor's apprentice to learn the art of Savile Row suitmaking...
Stanford's weaknesses may be tailor-made forHarvard. Particularly in its early-season lossesto Wisconsin and UConn, it showed a susceptibilityto turnovers. The Cardinal relinquishes the rockan average of 20.8 times per game, compared to18.8 for its opponents...
...turn, he said, this shift away from unfunded mandates would allow local governments to experiment, innovate and tailor national ideas to better fit their state's character...