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...retrospectives of a single designer or fashion house, “Fashion Show” features ready-to-wear and couture looks from ten top designers.Although the variety of designers is impressive, it comes at the expense of the exhibit’s ability to offer a coherent vision of where fashion is today.Haute couture, to make the distinction, is the name given to a one-of-a-kind, hand-made garment that can cost tens and even hundreds of thousands of dollars. Ready-to-wear clothing, on the other hand, is manufactured in all sizes and available for retail...
...children in New York, a city that, in his eyes, has become “a children’s city.” Gopnik’s descriptions of children’s gyms on each block in some neighborhoods and strollers that crowd the sidewalk present a vision of New York from the point of view of both child and parent...
...someone wants to advocate for radical change and also has the know-how to do it, we will support him or her,” Ross-Rieder said. “We are happy to work with people who are willing to help enact our vision,” Musa added. According to Musa and Ross-Rieder, several other tickets, which the two declined to identify, encouraged the pair to drop out of the race and join their campaigns. “We are going to sit on the sidelines until someone persuades the voters who is going...
...book are fake ads for NEXTgencode, the "industry leader in personal genetic life enhancement." A faux-corporate website www.nextgencode.com, complete with a picture of a sinister company headquarters, lets you browse the product line and see the "specials" on a gene for glossier hair or sharper vision or "BLSHt, for better verbal facility." You can meet the "staff," including a warm, smiling Dr. Melinda Johnson ("at NEXTgencode, I give parents the children they always wanted"). Anyone worried that natural blonds are an endangered species can relax: "We own the gene...
...otherwise focused on reconciliation, may be the first act in the "post-POST-Regensburg" phase of Benedict's papal diplomacy. How clearly can he draw the lines on the question of religious freedom? When will the "frank" public dialogue with Islam recommence? Can he lay out a new vision for a modern secular state - in both the Western and Muslim worlds - that gives due space to faith? And, perhaps just as importantly, can he keep the world's attention? The answers will depend on whether Benedict can strike the right balance between his newfound flexibility and an ancient, iron-clad...