Word: tuxedos
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...legendary Class Day speech for the Class of 2000, summed us up perfectly when he said that, “as graduates of Harvard, your biggest liability is your need to succeed… Because success is a lot like a bright, white tuxedo. You feel terrific when you get it, but then you’re desperately afraid of getting it dirty, of spoiling it in any way.” He’s right of course. Now all we must do is find the dry-cleaner.Sahil K. Mahtani ’08 is a history concentrator in Winthrop...
...their own wardrobes, both Roberta and Silvana wear Giorgio Armani, naturally. "I have a velvet tuxedo from 1995 that I still wear all the time," says Silvana, who sneaks a little bit of Polo Ralph Lauren into her weekend wardrobe. "I can wear any Armani jacket from 20 years ago," declares Roberta. "It's timeless." But ever since she officially began doing VIP work for the company two years ago, Roberta has made sure that her wardrobe is 100% Armani. "My private life is public now too," she says, "so even my house is filled with Armani Casa furniture...
...Another, unquestionably, would be George Clooney. He has all the old qualities: classically handsome but not intimidatingly so, looking perfect and comfortable in a tuxedo, and so at ease with his natural appeal - his Georgeness - that he needn't rev up or Method up a performance to screaming volume. After all, he came out of TV, where the goal is to be ingratiating, not from the stage or indie films, where the goal is threefold: sulk, simmer and explode. Clooney glides and purrs through his movies (and his public appearances) with a grace both manly and feline...
...roguery they brought to their nightclub gigs. The slapdash nature of the script, performances and production was meant to reflect the informal, what-the-hell, let's-pretend-we're-having-a-ball impulse that led to their making. These were movies that loosened the tuxedo tie and the tongue to provide an intoxicated if not intoxicating diversion. They were loosy-goosy for the time, and instantly irrelevant. Marijuana would soon replace alcohol as the younger generation's drug of choice; nobody wore a tie, let alone a tux, after his senior prom...
...orchestra will have to go back in time to correct it.” The orchestra normally performs in the intimate setting of Lowell Lecture Hall, but for this tenth-anniversary concert, Pops will perform to a larger audience in Sanders Theatre. Sanders Theater, usually home to the tuxedo-clad players of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, will get a good dose of the whimsical when Pops invades, according to Weinbloom. “It’s going to be tricky to fit that inclusive group theatricality of [Lowell Lecture Hall]…into the formality of Sanders...