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...clothes. And I liked the way her hair changes. You know you get what you pay for with hair and at the beginning, it looks so overworked and overprocessed - it's been permed, bleached, it's like a carpet. I imagined someone taking her to a salon uptown and doing what they call up there, the "Buttery Chunks" style...
...Harvard students’ daily wardrobe. For those who’ve stepped outside the boundaries of a typical Jansport backpack, the chosen bag represents not only one’s fashion conscientiousness, but also speaks a thousand words about individual personality. Whether it’s uptown chic or granola crunch, the bag carries a voice of its own, dictating one’s place in Harvard’s see and be scene. But isn’t it really what’s inside that counts? Read on, and decide for yourself...
...shows charming touches of her mother Ida when hectoring her own daughter--but they're burdened with sentimentality and limp one-liners. The Mary we see here shows glimpses of her self-effacing but strong self, yet at other times, incongruously, seems to have become a helpless uptown lady-who-lunches and slips into self-help-speak like "I'd had it with having it all." And the career subplot turns into a journalism lesson that makes Lou Grant look subtle...
Johnny D's Uptown Restaurant
...first glance, Johnny D's Uptown Restaurant & Music Club might be aptly dubbed a modern-day Globe theater. The privileged sit in posh faux-leather booths dining on Cajun delicacies while the rest are left standing like corralled groundlings demarcated by signs that separate the standing from the sitting (so that the seated "patricians" are able to see without over-zealous standers-by encroaching on their line-of-sight). Or perhaps it is only when the guitarist Bill Frisell is playing that this cozy Davis Square establishment deserves such a comparison--the manager assures me that the place is usually...