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...more primary." At Imparali Custom Tailors in New York City, new custom-suit sales fell about 20% in 2008, while revenues from fix-up jobs jumped 30%. Matt Harpalani, the shop's manager, notes that many of his customers who have lost weight now opt for an alteration rather than a new Armani. "The alteration business has paid our rent," Harpalani says. (Read "How to Know When the Economy Is Turning...
...century, anonymity became less a matter of mortal safety and more a strategy for marketing. Readers and reviewers were left to speculate on the gender and identity for the author. Jonathan Swift, author of “Gulliver’s Travels,” for instance, went to rather elaborate means to preserve his secrecy. He arranged for the manuscript to be transcribed to disguise the handwriting, and the manuscript was later delivered by an intermediary. Mullan says that Swift’s obscurity “was a kind of self-promotion–an incitement...
...punk-ish attitude and raucous live shows they’ve been known for. Unfortunately, only two other songs on the album convey the same appeal; “Sing Tommorow’s Praise” showcases their shoegaze influences, creating a dense wall of sound rather than an delicate melody, while the volume fluctuations of “Sunshower” allow it to be pretty without being irritating. The band’s disinterest with variety on the rest of the album is nothing short of frustrating. Someone felt the need to include “Risky...
...intense testimonies of the participants. The use of archival footage and historical commentary is also effective, as is Lemelson’s attention to character development. As one spectator commented, the film does not attempt to “glamorize or create saints” out of the victims. Rather, they are portrayed honestly as complicated people coming to terms with the trauma of their past. In fact, all of the survivors interviewed in the film are struggling with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and the social stigmatization that still haunts Communist-affiliated citizens in Indonesia.Lemelson, a professor at the Department...
...movement attempted to use art for social and political change. Indeed, SI embraced propaganda—what they saw as “arts as a means”—within and without the organization. Unlike other movements before them, this group aspired towards action rather than the formation of a set of doctrines, resisting the term “situationism.” Their ideology—actively creating “situations” around them, refusing to be taken in by the “dead time” of everyday routine—even...