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...past-the past of the French masterpieces in the Louvre. To some women his work is overdecorated, but his clothes are endless reveries on color executed in minute detail, such as Lesage embroidery, usually found only in handmade costumes. Similarly, Japan's Issey Miyake, who has never cared a whit about hemlines or gold chains, played a gentle counterpoint to the mainstream with radiant fabrics and a magicianly way with material that amounted to sculpting...
...Pidot has spent some $1,000 of his own money on Salient expenses and has not yet been paid back. (Dartboard sources tell us Pidot forecloses on the Salient next week. The first edition of the new publication, tentatively titled "Whit Pidot's Salient," will appear shortly thereafter...
Pidot explains the recent turmoil that has shaken his publication by talking about "hills and valleys" in organizational history. Whit, this isn't a valley. The chasm is wide and deep, and we wonder whether the Salient will ever emerge from...
...Whit Stillman always stands out in the grungy group portrait of American independents: he's the one in the navy-blue blazer and old school tie. In Metropolitan, released in 1990, he created an engaging circle of Manhattan debs and preppies, enthralled by their own obsolescence. In Barcelona, on a larger canvas, Stillman paints a sympathetic portrait of two Americans -- Ted (Taylor Nichols), a genteel businessman, and his snarkier cousin, Fred (Chris Eigeman), a naval officer -- adrift in Spain during what the film, with beguiling pomposity, calls "the last decade of the cold...
...culture." They read the Bible while dancing alone to Glenn Miller's PEnnsylvania 6-5000. And when they encounter sensuous senoritas who declare, "I don't go to bed with just anyone anymore -- I have to be attracted to him sexually," these paragons of starched Waspness engage in prime Whit Stillman cross talk...