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...exasperating to navigate, but it stocks the best selection we've seen of goods from fancy labels. (This T shirt is Versace Jeans Couture.) For bags, hoodies and Diane von Furstenberg, try purpleskirt.com...
...trim blonde in a tailored suit. "When celebrities come out with their own products--Rocky Graziano's spaghetti sauce, Mickey Mantle's barbecue sauce, Nolan Ryan's All-Star Fruit Snacks, Gloria Vanderbilt's salad dressing, Reggie Jackson's candy bar, Carl Yastrzemski's Big Yaz Bread, Diane von Furstenberg's facial tissue, Bill Blass's chocolates, Richard Simmons's Salad Spray, Tommy Lasorda's spaghetti sauce, Yves St. Laurent's cigarettes, Frank Sinatra's neckties--all examples of products these famous people promoted with unsatisfactory results. There's never been a real celebrity success in the food business...
...museum’s walls hangs Franz von Stuck’s Wounded Amazon, a painting of a fictional battle between Amazons and centaurs. Scholars have speculated that the injured Amazon in the center of the painting, which von Stuck had previously used to symbolize the ‘new’ art he was creating, represents the opposition faced by modern art at the turn of the 20th century...
...only artist to be exhibited in three different media is Franz von Stuck, whose noteworthy contributions in printmaking and painting methods are supplemented with the exhibit’s only sculpture. Titled Amazon, its smooth, dark silhouette outlines a muscular woman atop a wide-eyed horse’s back, her left hand gripping the horse’s mane while her other hand is positioned to fling a pointy spear. The moment is one of everlasting tension, freezing the Amazon’s attack at the brink of its culmination...
...tradition of American Bandstand. Dancing on the show was every girl’s dream at the unpopular but good-hearted Tracy’s high school, and when she is unexpectedly awarded the honor after a dance contest, a veritable class war between her and Amber von Tussle, the quintessential wealthy bitch, erupts in their hometown. Before long, Tracy finds herself fighting for racial equality on the Corny Collins Show, but despite this segment’s somewhat serious subject matter, the play remains lighthearted and hilarious. Carly Jibson and Bruce Vilanch star in the touring Broadway ensemble. Through...