Word: vending
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...enjoying the remnants of a deceptively short holiday, all had reason to celebrate yesterday. Collective cries for unregulated Sunday booze-buying have been well-received, effectively voiding one of Massachusetts' residual “blue laws” and making the Sabbath just another day for liquor stores to vend their wares...
Despite the arbitrariness of our loyalties to Harvard and House, these loyalties quickly become deeply held and fiercely defended. Harvard is littered with buildings bearing the names of loyal alumni; the Coop devotes its entire first floor to sweatshirts, visors and Nalgene bottles to vend to the Harvard faithful. In cities worldwide, Harvard clubs have healthy membership lists. And our loyalties to our Houses run as deep. With the willful blindness of zealotry, Quadlings defend their Garden Street gulag; House Committees do brisk trade in crest-emblazoned beer steins and shot glasses; in the spring, upperclassmen, one of whom will...
...flowers and animals ensconced inside long cabinets in a darkened room. Visitors wield flashlights handed out at the entrance to "The Jewels of JAR," a homage to the innovative designer Joel Arthur Rosenthal at London's Somerset House. The shadowed display is modeled on his exclusive shop near Place Vendôme, Paris. Only around 70 unique pieces are hand made every year, and this is the first time his work has been shown to the public. Rosenthal, 60, is famous for creating a pavement of tiny stones that enables subtle color gradations on a flower petal or insect wing...
...exhibition with more a question than a message, because each artist has his own way of adapting his work to different tasks. Some, like Collier Schorr and his revealing photos of awkward adolescents, make no distinction between creating work for its own sake and trying to vend clothes. Others, such as Banu Cennetoglu and his dimension-defying landscapes, seem to be sticking in the models as an afterthought to their previous works. So the gimmick both works and it doesn’t: we indeed get to see a very rare sight, how commisioned and non-commissioned art from...
...argue there's room for a variety of Diors. "We did a study and found Dior can be a brand with several different talents," says Toledano, pointing out that his firm's fine jewelry is designed by Victoire de Castellane and will get a new store on the Place Vend?me this spring. The brand-management theory? Separate but equal...