Lady of Burlesque

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    The Hollywood and La Brea Gateway gazebo was made in the art deco style with materials such as glass, steel, and neon. Hardwicke intended for the piece to acknowledge the different cultural backgrounds of people who helped create the Hollywood we know, while also encouraging an examination of the place. Said Hardwicke: The design embraces and pokes fun at the glamour, the polished metallic male form of the Oscar, and the pastiche of styles and dreams that pervades Tinseltown. The public artwork depicts

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    Introduction Her real names, Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, Lady Gaga, was born on March 28th, 1986. She is a renowned American songwriter, actress, and singer. She was born and raised in a Catholic family residing at Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Lady Gaga went to Convent of the Sacred Heart, an all-girls private Roman Catholic school. She later joined CAP21 before dropping out of the school, at the age of 19 to pursue her music career. She describes her academic years as being full of dedication

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    I attended the Alley Theater’s production of The Foreigner on July 31st at 7:30 pm. I had actually gone with a classmate, Amina to watch the play and on the way there we got lost. I was very frustrated because they did not have a temporary sign, showing where the Alley was. This was my first time going to a play and it started off badly. On our way there we went a little ahead and the GPS told us to make left and that road was a “do not enter road” and on the other side there was a car coming so

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    under the table and rushed out through the lobby. Chloe was trying to convince a man named Harry T. Burn (a legislator from McMinn County) to vote for women’s suffrage. They didn’t think he was going to vote for them. Chloe had taken him to the burlesque and then supper. I think they are done now. I ran to the Tulane hotel. I saw Chloe’s car out front. Miss Lewis (a Suff) had told me they were dancing in the hotel two blocks away up on the tenth floor. It was too hot for all this running, especially

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    It’s usually all over the place, in the magazines, on the internet, T.V shows, and even while walking down the streets, you’re assured to encounter it. What else would it be, other than fashion trends that everyone is talking about? Fashion trends have always been playing an important role in many people’s day to day life and they are considered to be the latest style of clothing, hair or decoration that is developing and popular at a given time . Fashion trends have drastically evolved as time has

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    through Detective Figure Throughout history there have been many different forms of masculinity present within a society at any given time. However, there has always been one form that is seen as the hegemonic, or the proper desired, masculinity. Within Lady Audley’s Secret, there are numerous examples of the various aspects of the hegemonic masculinity represented by male characters, such as Sir Audley and George Talboys. There is one character, however, who does not conform to the hegemonic masculinity

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    bowler hat designs by the models hair. Towering headpieces also made watered people’s mouths leaving traces of envy and undying desire of ladies to have one. The bowler hat was also a very strong accessory used in Gaultier’s Autumn/Winter 2012 collection. According to the Vogue fashion director Lucinda Chamber description it was a risqué without being burlesque. His couture brought to the catwalk furry jackets and dresses together with the black color. The French designer always creates headdresses

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    Lawrence Levine Lowbrow

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    Lawrence Levine’s Highbrow, Lowbrow: The Emergence of Cultural Hierarchy in America and M. Alison Kibler’s Rank Ladies: Gender and Cultural Hierarchy in American Vaudeville explore and question how various forms of art became stratified and a hierarchy developed between the art and the audience. The specific chapters assigned from these texts confront various forms of art and entertainment presented to audiences during the nineteenth century in American variety, or Vaudeville, theaters and traveling

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    Object Analysis - Corsets

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    Q.2 using the model of object analysis, analyse one fashion article. (Choose a garment, which can be used to discuss fashion from the point of view of the consumer. This garment must be able to demonstrate how the consumer individually constructs their identity and conveys that identity through the style and styling of clothing. You should treat this garment as an object as a form of evidence, which can help you to explain theories of fashion discussed in the sessions. The intention of your analysis

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    A social commentator, artistic critic, and artist, T.S. Eliot importantly chides modernist culture within his representation of the recurring character Sweeney, while also adhering to principles that he advances within his critical essays. Not only does Eliot merely describe the lust that he observes, but he, through Sweeney, interacts with, and consequently conveys its specific circumstances. Infusing mythological allusions into his depictions of such immoral situations, Eliot becomes an important

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