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...year-old Lo’s “pre-adolescently incurved back, that ivory-smooth, sliding sensation of her skin through the thin frock.” Of course, such detached precision—each word set down deliberately as a pin through the thorax of a butterfly??was for Nabokov a conscious choice, allowing him to scale ever more crystalline summits. “For me,” he wrote, “a work of fiction exists only insofar as it affords me what I shall bluntly call aesthetic bliss...
...Murphy said. “Our distance guys did some really solid work,” he added.A competitor at last year’s Olympic Trials and NCAA championships, senior Bill Jones touched the wall first with a mark of 49.77 in the 100-yard butterfly??just .1 seconds ahead of Cornell’s Wes Newman—while freshman Nicholas Tan placed third with an even 50.00. Tan made the most of his first collegiate meet, capturing the 200-yard butterfly with a meet-best time of 1:51.27. Jones was a close second...
Describe yourself in three words: social(ly inept) butterfly {or “inept social butterfly?...
...Americans’ right to do as they pleased in a conquered country.” One can forgive certain inklings of ressentiment.“The Mikado” is certainly not alone in terms of context-specific variance. Giacomo Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly?? met with diverse reactions between Eastern and Western audiences—while wildly successful at the Metropolitan Opera House in 1907, it met with some confusion by Japanese audiences, who sometimes did not know what to make of Western tonalities. Rodger and Hammerstein?...
...Mugatu, but we do spot a woman with mile-high coiffed hair. Then the parade of high-concept fashion begins.Out of all the designers we’ve seen, Maticevski is the most original. He showcases several different styles, including puffy, soft gowns sculpted like a butterfly??s wings to create ethereal silhouettes in bright lemon and peach. Like BCBG, the clothes are hardly street-wear material, but Maticevski elevates his line to sculpture instead of aimless fabric layering. He next juxtaposes that style with petite black nightwear—mini dresses, fitted jackets, complicated necklines, and lots...