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...there's a common thread to these disparate works, it's their intimacy. Jericho, for instance, gives us doomsday as soap opera. The postapocalyptic tales of the cold war--On the Beach, A Canticle for Leibowitz, The Day After, Threads--were books and movies that had conclusions; a TV series is open-ended, like life. Jericho doles out its horror in doses--flickering TV images of ruined cities, radiation victims dead by a lake--and softens it with soap-opera B-plots. The survivors have affairs and family fights; teenagers flirt and throw parties. Chicago may be burning, but somewhere...
John F. “Jack” Pararas ’08 added to the online thread yesterday...
Lucy W. Baird ’10 isn’t even twenty yet, but she’s a pro when it comes to working with needles and thread. She started by altering clothes with her mother’s instruction, then she moved on to making costumes for high school plays. But making a dress in 24 hours with only 24 bucks? Even this fair-haired fashionista hasn’t done that...
...work she does. Midway through the morning, Smith has already cut her lady-bug dress in half to make a shirt and skirt. She sews the cotton filler into the hem of the skirt and folds the fabric over, causing it to flare out sharply. Using her thick grey thread, she bunches up the material to create a curtain-like, drappage look...
...particularly like the way you let the thread interrupt the white,” Bhabha said to Frommer. “The inspiration was my unfortunate future, which is probably working in an investment bank,” explained Frommer. “This is for day and night...