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...trouble for this," scolds Brioni's communications director, Alessandra Alla. But not Milan, so Angeloni, 53, continues peeling off his vest to demonstrate what is special about a Brioni suit. He pulls up the lapel to display a cashmere backing (as opposed to the traditional felt) and a special thread to hold a boutonniere in place. He shows off a barely perceptible extra chest seam that requires a painstaking matching of stripes. He points out secret pockets and buttonholes stitched to look as good on the inside as out. (The buttonholes are stitched by 80 women by hand, a skill...
...Harvard went Hollywood.While the stars took their walks down the red carpet and into Los Angeles’ Kodak Theater, the students took their places in Cambridge’s Eliot, Pforzheimer, and Lowell Houses to enjoy the show. The festivities varied in size and scope, but the common thread throughout seemed to be free food. Popcorn was the standard, but some venues went beyond. Eliot House’s Oscar observances were punctuated by a special Eliot HoCo-sponsored deal at the Eliot Grille. Starting at 8 p.m., the first $100 of ordered food came free, a number that...
...figure in all Suburbia, the thread that weaves between family and community?the keeper of the suburban dream?is the suburban housewife. In the absence of her commuting, city-working husband, she is first of all the manager of home and brood, and beyond that a sort of aproned activist with a penchant for keeping the neighborhood and community kettle whistling ... If she is not pregnant, she wonders if she is. She takes her peanut-butter sandwich lunch while standing, thinks she looks a fright, watches her weight (periodically), jabbers over the short-distance telephone with the next-door neighbor...
...Hanger-On: By a thread, that is. Sometimes at odds with other members of the group, The Hanger-On will be unceremoniously voted off by the other group members if she so much as blinks at someone the wrong way. Just give them a reason. She is a favorite target of The Manipulator, who often aims to remove her in order to make space for The Waffler...
...Nessun Dorma (Nobody Sleeps) from Turandot; Eva Herzigova (a Czech-born resident of Torino) starring as Botticelli's Venus on a half shell. A Ferrari roared onstage, the speakers blared the theme from Rocky (Stallone! The Italian Stallion!), and suddenly, after a magnificent dove formation by acrobats on gossamer thread, there was a poetry-spouting Yoko Ono. (Who knew she was Italian?) The only thing missing was the famous shroud...