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...slept and used it to buy fabric at a Brooklyn dry-goods emporium. At 17 he whipped up a special purple suit to wear on his first trip to Paris. No surprise, then, that young Isaac became a successful fashion designer whose business straddles youthful downtown chic and conservative uptown department stores...
...your relationship, or any others, persist in the face of nightly debates about what to have or where to go for dinner? Or weekly grocery shopping? Can mad passion possibly transcend daily arguments about the merits of renting or buying? Getting a loft or a duplex? Living uptown or downtown? Hardwood floors or carpeting? Whether to have kids or simply get a Labrador and a ficus tree in the garden...
...sound, Unplugged has had widespread impact throughout the music industry. Radio stations have sponsored Unplugged-type concerts, and pop stars who have never been on Unplugged--soul singer Vanessa Williams, for example--have released albums that echo the show's soft-pop, pared-down sound. Andre Harrell, head of Uptown records, sees the unplugged style spreading. "Jodeci, in its upcoming album, is doing an acoustic song," he says. "Babyface did an acoustic-guitar song, When Can I See You. I'm sure some of that was inspired by Unplugged." Even the Rolling Stones, the nearly fossilized progenitors of eardrum-rending...
...York Film Festival as an "alternative" to that scene. "It's basically breaking this incestuous cycle of endowed committees that give grants for films, and then turn around and hold the festival [for those films]," says Phillips. During the same week that the New Directors/New Films festival played uptown at Lincoln Center, the New York Underground Film Festival played three nights worth of sold-out shows at the Anthology Film Archive in the East Village...
Sarah J. Schaffer '97 is an uptown girl...