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This combination flop-house/speak-easy is the residence of two women who once gave themselves entirely over to art: Greta (Patricia Clarkson), a German actress whose career took a dive after the death of Fassbinder, and Lucy (Ally Sheedy), a photographer of stunning, decadent portraits who abandoned her promising career to accompany Greta further and further into their shared black forest of drugs and sex. The women are still attached to each other, lustful and desperate but still, it seems on some level, inspired by each other's sensitive nature and past artistic achievements. Unfortunately, both women invested so much...

Author: By Nicholas K. Davis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: High Art, Despite Solid Acting, Falls Short of Its Namesake | 6/26/1998 | See Source »

...Europe, her return to fashion was deemed an utter flop at first, but Americans couldn't buy her suits fast enough. Yet again Chanel had put herself into the yolk of the zeitgeist. By the time Katharine Hepburn played her on Broadway in 1969, Chanel had achieved first-name recognition and was simply Coco. Ingrid Sischy is editor in chief of Interview and a contributing editor to Vanity Fair

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Designer COCO CHANEL | 6/8/1998 | See Source »

...mass exodus of junior faculty in the English department, a breach in the tenure process and the gone one day, back the next flip-flop of Waggoner Professor of Economics Robert J. Barro added to the mysteries surrounding tenure at Harvard this academic year...

Author: By Tara L. Colon, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Faculty Members Coming, Going and Coming Back Again | 6/4/1998 | See Source »

Harvard administrators said they did not "top" Columbia's offer. Instead they attributed Barro's flip-flop to a change of heart...

Author: By Tara L. Colon, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Faculty Members Coming, Going and Coming Back Again | 6/4/1998 | See Source »

...yesterday, in a stunning administrative flip-flop, Harvard officials backed away from that pledge--and what could have been millions of dollars in formal aid increases. Instead, officials simply reaffirmed their standing commitment to a summer of aid review...

Author: By James Y. Stern, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: University Reverses Pledge To Increase Aid | 6/2/1998 | See Source »

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