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...blazer. She smiled warmly, apologizing for having an ice cream social on such a cold day. “We planned this so long ago, it seemed like a good idea,” Kinsella said. Attendees extended warm welcomes to strangers, and kept the conversation light, asking the usual trifecta: Concentration? House? Year? After a few minutes of genuine politeness, the True Lovers regressed into taking good-natured cracks at each other and making inside jokes that were hard to follow. In fact, abstinence was not even mentioned and aside from the hot pink flyers listing ten reasons...
...involved must force themselves into the routine of George Balanchine’s preexisting choreography, regardless of their artistic preferences. “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” is not only difficultly choreographed, but also requires more theatrics on the part of its dancers than usual ballets...
...last week a few moments before curtain call, Mahdi and the other actors lounged backstage while an actress with platinum blonde hair and a heavy application of kohl-eyeliner berated a stagehand in the timeless manner of prima donnas the world over. But any sense of show business as usual ended when one of the theater managers came by to collect passports and identity documents. The Syrian government is in the process of tightening its generous residency laws for Iraqi refugees, and the fear of deportation looms larger over the cast than a newspaper critic with a grudge...
...after fighting drug problems and ballooning, whittled herself down as a spokeswoman for TrimSpa diet supplements. According to her mother, she even invented her childhood, mythologizing her middle-class upbringing into a hardscrabble one, like Jay Gatsby in reverse. Feral, brazen and vacant, Smith was not talented in most usual senses, but in one way she was an artist. She was her own sculpture...
...going price of his clothing (about $220 for shirts and $250 for pants) is about half of what he would charge if the clothes were made in Italy. His goal for now is to open a retail store New York City, preferably in the West Village.As Bartlett made the usual designer’s after-show appearance on the runway, he was wearing his own signature wide-cuffed pants and color-blocked blazer. Let’s just say it’s rare that any fashion designer could look as comfortable as he did in his own designs. That?...