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This is the second of FM’s new biweekly “Pop Culture Flashback” column, which will analyze the cultural detritus of our youth. E-mail fm@thecrimson.com with suggested topics...
...lining trenchcoats in 1924 and clothing British aviators in the 1930s. Beginning in the 1960s, the Burberry Check has appeared on scarves, umbrellas and luggage. Recently, the company—under new management since 1997—launched a modish marketing campaign aimed at the fashionable and impressionable youth of the world, introducing the fragrance Burberry Touch a couple of years ago. If dressing oneself in the old check pattern is not enough to satisfy diehard fans, Burberry Barbie—who sports a plaid kilt, scarf and bag and is “classic in every sense...
...this scripted celebration of the last 100 days creates intense irony—now, more than ever, as seniors try to live in the present, to burn in their youth, they are thinking about their future. I don’t just mean that as these future alumni cram in their final hurrahs, most of them will be thinking about upcoming thesis deadlines, planning contingencies if their next job interview falls through or imagining what their friends will all be doing in 20 years. On a more fundamental level, for many seniors these last 100 days are not about living...
Williams walked what the New York Post has called the “tough streets” of Brooklyn as a youth. He walked them on his way back from school—where a speech impediment made him a laughingstock—to his home, where his mother fired a weapon at his father on one occasion and chased him with a butcher knife on another. He cried as he watched two sisters die of AIDS. He got into a number of legal scrapes early in his career as a late-night sidekick of Charles Barkley during their days...
...weekend concluded a season marked by injuries and youth. The Crimson began the season ranked second in the national polls, but a midseason injury to co-captain Peter Karlen had contributed to recent losses to Ivy rivals Princeton and Yale. Harvard found a measure of redemption this weekend by exacting revenge on Yale and giving Trinity a tougher match than expected...