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DESIGN TOUCHSTONE "For me, products don't have to be shiny and new," says Frank. "They can be worn and rusted, and that adds character." His latest creation: Inkuku, a chair made entirely from plastic shopping bags, following a traditional African practice of using everyday discarded plastics to make objects for the home...
...year-old who has just recently received his acceptance letter could become the cornerstone of a dominant Ivy championship squad in 2009. Why, just three years ago, junior Clifton Dawson was a redshirt freshman at Northwestern University; now, he is the most prolific running back ever to have worn Crimson.In the not-too-distant past, the stars of the swimming, lacrosse, basketball, fencing, hockey teams were relative unknowns to their Harvard classmates.Now, the likes of David Cromwell, Evan Calvert, Matt Stehle, Emily Cross, and Peter Hafner have brought medals, banners, and even a national championship to the college?...
...it’s going to be better,” she says. The seven clusters of gray concrete that compose Charlesview Apartments contrast sharply with the white finish of its neo-Georgian neighbor, Harvard Business School (HBS). The stairwells smell like rotting metal and the concrete steps are worn. American flags and Easter baskets adorn the scratched red and blue doors. Bicycles and television buzz overflow into the landings. Inside the apartments there is wall-to-wall carpeting, a couch, a television. Some contain two stories and many open onto private decks. In 1995, the U.S. Department of Housing...
...COLLECTION WITH PATTER ('I got this British accent when I became successful'), describing his clothes with the tact of an unemployed salesman ('This long dress is for girls with bad knees'). Best of his clothes were the suits and suit ensembles, made mostly of tweed or velvet and worn with matching hats (jockey caps, berets, bowlers and pillboxes) and boots. And even better than the clothes were Cassini's prices, lower this year than ever; some dresses retailed for as little...
...Atlas, he turned the postmodern book inside out by setting pieces in six different ages and voices, then doubling back (a little too fancily perhaps) to explore the idea of "eternal recurrence." In his new, most deeply personal work, Mitchell does something even more remarkable: he makes the well-worn coming-of-age novel feel vivid and uncomfortable and new. The revolution here is not of form, but of content and sensibility...