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This mecca of gaudiness was founded by a man who spouts wisdom like, “If you go to a party, you should wear a tiara.” Paul Turnberg started this vintage jewelry store 40 years ago and is still behind the counter today, a cluster of rhinestones sparkling in his ear. Twentieth Century Ltd. may be unique in its glamorous genre. According to Turnberg, jewel-starved customers regularly come up from New York, where no such cavern of riches exists. It is not difficult to understand their devotion. Entering the store is like having magically fallen...
...might think the director of a Russian drama would wear self-important designer clothes or chunky glasses and faux-nerdy attire. But Dorothy “Dot” Fortenberry ’02 showed up to our interview sporting a turquoise princess costume and a tiara set in her spunky hair. Well, perhaps she’s not quite that weird: The costume was for the Immediate Gratification Players (IGP) Halloween show. Then again, anyone in IGP has got to be at least a little weird. But what kind of blonde comedienne picks Three Sisters as her directing opus...
...proclaims the site’s manifesto. Visitors to the site are encouraged to design their own fake pages and can choose from an array of tantilizing ladies with which to lure unsuspecting porn cusstomers. There is the pink haired minx with fishnet stockings, the brunette with the tiara and neon-blue boa, or the dirty cop with handcuffs and a suggestively placed baton. After a simple click and drag, the “get (some) real” sticker covers the tantilizing silicone breasts and tight plastic derri?...
...great clothes. And about artifacts, sacred objects assembled to evoke an irretrievable past. Outsize pictures of Jackie and her husband hang from the walls as backdrop for the actual gowns and dresses, poised silently on mannequins and bathed in soft pastels. It is as though Guinevere's gown and tiara suddenly appeared on the mezzanine of the Met, tangible proof that the fairy tale--Camelot--was real...
...Beijing's propagandists, who have worked overtime on the Falun Gong account, recently launched a variety show called The Voice of Truth and Justice in a Beijing theater. Act I features a woman in a rhinestone tiara with a provocative slit up her dress who wins ribald cheers from the audience when she sings about a construction worker who goes insane practicing Falun Gong. In Act II, an opera troupe sings about a practitioner who burns himself alive. For the closer, a man in a white tux, red bow tie, studded cowboy boots and an Elvis pompadour croons: "Li Hongzhi...