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...temperament. Vacationing among the idle rich, our hero spies a group of young women around the resort and has his fancy drift from one to the other. Who will the young man choose and will she reciprocate? This, the strongest "plot" of the series so far, provides the narrative thread that Proust then strings his poetic pearls along. In a medium where plot traditionally comes first, it's hard to believe that a comic can be about leisurely day trips, conversation, fashion and the politics of class and sex. Paced like a Summer's stroll, part two of Huete...
...alone if you've stopped keeping track of the 9/11 investigation--the FBI's largest ever, as we've been told. But last week Washington insiders found a single thread in the giant investigation tapestry and began pulling--and in doing so created what could become a diplomatic mess with a key ally, just as the U.S. is trying to maintain support for its hard line on Iraq...
...launched at the Paris pret-a-porter collections last month, Takahashi takes the very Japanese idea of "deconstructed clothing"?garments torn apart and put back together in novel ways?and infuses it with a sense of violence. Jackets and pants are ripped to shreds, then stitched with loose red thread left dangling in a manner that suggests blood. Shirtsleeves are amputated and re-attached the way a wound would be sutured. The aesthetic nexus between beauty and pain obsesses Takahashi, and the collection is as viciously elegant as a pinned butterfly. "The essence of Takahashi's creations is maniacal," says...
Rein concludes that Harvard wants dynamic people who will contribute to the Harvard community and society at large. “They tend to be students who seize and create opportunities to make the world a better place. They are self-reflective people. It was a common thread through almost every one of the essays,” he says...
...taken as a ballad - a narrative poem - "Blood Song" becomes beautiful and expansive. Like a ballad, its story exits only as a thread for the reader to follow through the metaphors and themes. One way of reading it, for example, is a story about the transition from child to adult - moving from careless tranquility through tempestuous seas to the world of responsibility and childbirth...