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After returning to the Quad a few hours later, Smith looks over her findings: a red polka dot dress (aka, the ladybug dress), a child’s snow suit, shiny silver sunglasses, a black spandex running top, and thick industrial thread. With her shopping finished, Smith is done for the day. She straps on her ever-trusty rollerblades, and speeds off to a concert...
...instances of controversy have many more differences than similarities. Still, they are often mentioned in the same breath in indictments or criticisms of the Harvard Law School faculty, especially in primarily conservative publications like the Weekly Standard. For better or worse, their largely superficial similarity—the common thread of a Harvard Law School professor accused of plagiarism—have yoked them together in the public imagination...
...these tribes are not created by the players but imposed from above.Although the program is not based on racial ideology per se, it is designed to foster and highlight racial tension. Moreover this tension is meant to entertain. Making light of a serious and disturbing issue is the common thread running through both “Survivor: Cook Islands” and “Survivor: Jim Crow South.” And it is this insensitivity that has led even such a paragon of human rights as Coca-Cola to be somewhat critical of “Survivor: Cook...
PAULA BAXTER sees a thread running through the history of men's fashion: dissolute or licentious elements of style acting as a goad of dress norms. "Men's clothing over the centuries has been impacted by what men on the street wear," says the curator of an exhibit of about 200 engravings, prints, watercolors, drawings and photographs (from Ralph Lauren ads to Auguste Racinet's Le Costume Historique) opening at the New York Public Library this month. "A Rakish History of Men's Wear" surveys the factors?sumptuary laws, chivalrous codes, spiritual and marital values, dandyism and a bourgeois middle...
...memo also discusses how a thread of information revealed by one detainee would be used as leverage or leads for questioning another, often in rapid succession. The documents assert that numerous plots have been killed in their crib and many dangerous operatives have been put out of commission based on information gleaned from interrogations...