Word: corset
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Love Mad Men? The Charles Hotel’s bar, Noir, dedicates the once-holy day to 1960s debauchery à la Mad Men. Find cigarette smoke, (corset) boning and cocktails at a bar described as one of the sultriest on either side of the river (Stuff@Night).Sundays, 10 p.m. Noir, Charles Hotel, One Bennett Street, Cambridge...
...downloading the crisp whites of their wimples for future use. When she's apprenticed to a hosiery maker and trying to make money on the side singing in bars with Adrienne Chanel (Marie Gillain, playing a composite of Chanel's aunt and her sister), she rips apart a corset, giving Adrienne's lush body a chance to move within the clothing. As a young woman, vacationing with her lover at the beach, she covets the simplicity of the striped sweaters the sailors wear to mind their nets. (See pictures of Snuggie on the runway...
...soon-to-be-dead scientist puts the finishing touches on Number 9, the last of his creations. The dolls are distinguishable by the numbers stamped on their backs and the various notions that adorn them. Wise Number 2 (voiced by Martin Landau) laces up like a corset. Number 5 (John C. Reilly), who is cuddly, sweet and needs ego-boosting, is missing an eye and wears a lone button on his chest, kind of like Don Freeman's beloved bear Corduroy. Number 6 is loopy, creative and imprisoned by his own mind, so naturally he wears vertical stripes...
...prize. For her application, Liu submitted an essay from her Expository Writing 20 class, which had been featured in this year’s Exposé. The essay, titled “The Infamous Hourglass: Constructing the Perfect Female Figure,” focused on the history of the corset. Liu’s family drove from Pittsburgh, Pa., to be with her as she received this honor. “I am very proud of Elise for winning this award,” Helen Wang, Elise’s mother, said. “I am pleased that...
...Undeterred, a group of students and rogue professors held a "Pirates Screening Teach-In" on Monday night, drawing some 200 attendees. Before a 30-min. excerpt - which included two threesomes and copious shots of corset-clad blondes - students, professors, lawyers and ACLU representatives stood up to defend porn on principle. English professor Martha Nell Smith, who noted that literature from Shakespeare to Dickinson includes pornographic elements, said it's a student's choice whether to study erotica and "our job together to contextualize it." (Read about porn and the iPhone...