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Avant-garde musicians are spooky types, as proven by the recent show at the Middle East featuring Plaid, Nobukazu Takemura and Mira Calix. Alien atmospherics were the theme of the night, with the downstairs lounge of the Middle East and clumps of equally weird onlookers basking in light tinged sickly green. Clouds of smoke were penetrated by sheets of cacophonic noise draped over the occasional sullen bass boom, sounding like a malevolent heartbeat. The stage was littered with mostly unidentifiable contraptions; only the distinctive white outline of an iBook served as a reminder that this was conceived by humans...
...such a jerk. He tells me I’m hopeless and have regressed since going to college. He pays me and my sisters to give him clothing of ours that he doesn’t like. I’ve gotten $50 for a pair of plaid golf pants that he desperately wanted to burn. Not a bad deal, but still a jerk move...
Burberry was founded in 1856 as a clothing company for the outdoorsmen of Hampshire, England. Since then, the business has gone on to play a vital role in fashion history, or so Burberry’s plaid-replete website boasts. The company designed service uniforms for British officers in 1901, outfitting the first two expeditions to the South Pole in 1911 and 1914, 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?...
Though many of the fans sported Patriots t-shirts, Ryan M. Fitzgerald ’02 chose more creative attire, wearing a plaid shirt, hard hat and construction boots...
Fleming returned from the intermission wearing a floor-length plaid stole of mixed Scotch-Italian influence, and began a Debussy set with a soaring note in “La Flute de Pan.” The pensive, worried mood of this piece soon segued into the sublimely happy—and rather seductive—love song, “Le Cheverlure.” The third Debussy song, “Le Tombeau des Naides” had a few trills here and there, but was not outstanding overall...