RETAIL: AN INTRODUCTION
Picture, if you still can, the packed dressing room of a Loehmann’s, in the days before that deep-discount clothing emporium, its stores for decades a New York shopping icon, shuttered its doors. The lighting is grey, fluorescent, unflattering. But never mind, it signifies the business at hand: the sacred and profane ritual of communal shopping.
Hooks and clothing racks line the dressing-room walls, but the focal point of the space is a wall-to-wall, floor-to-ceiling mirror, reflecting dozens of pirouetting, preening bodies. Women. Women of all shapes, colors, sizes and ages, cellulite visible, in various states of undress: pulling their legs through pants, shimmying the fabric of dresses down over their hips. They are talking to each other (even to strangers) as they don their apparel: “Mom, that looks great on you!” “Too roomy, honey.” “Does it come in another color?”
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The Books That Made Me: 8 Writers on Their Literary Inspirations
In decades past, the Book Review occasionally asked young authors about their biggest influences. For our 125th anniversary, we put the question to a new generation.
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April 15, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET
In 1984, The New York Times Book Review presented a group of writers under 40 with a simple challenge: Name the writer or writers who have most influenced your work and explain how. While many of these authors were just beginning their careers, they later became some of the most widely read and respected artists of their generation Ann Beattie, Denis Johnson, Gloria Naylor and Frederick Barthelme, to name only a few.
By: Pollstar Staff
In honor of Women’s History Month, Pollstar
is spotlighting seminal live performances by women every weekday
throughout March. Similar to the philosophy behind Pollstar’
s February series –
– we aim to feature a variety of artists from
different time periods and music genres to help put into perspective the vast range of amazing live performances by women who over the years have greatly enriched our
lives and culture. We are only too aware that we can only hope to scratch the
surface of so many brilliant performances by so many incredibly talented women, be it jazz,
soul, R&B, punk, hip-hop, classical, blues, rock, country and far more.
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