Law in Contemporary Society

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VeblenandStuff 4 - 10 Apr 2010 - Main.KalliopeKefallinos
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 -- NonaFarahnik - 06 Apr 2010 Miranda is the editor of Vogue. Andy is her assistant. This is from The Devil Wears Prada.
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 One of my most vivid memories is of coming back West from prep school and later from college at Christmas time. Those who went farther than Chicago would gather in the old dim Union Station at six o’clock of a December evening, with a few Chicago friends, already caught up into their own holiday gayeties, to bid them a hasty good-by. I remember the fur coats of the girls returning from Miss This-or-that’s and the chatter of frozen breath and the hands waving overhead as we caught sight of old acquaintances, and the matchings of invitations: "Are you going to the Ordways'? the Herseys'? the Schultzes'?" and the long green tickets clasped tight in our gloved hands. And last the murky yellow cars of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad looking cheerful as Christmas itself on the tracks beside the gate.

-- DavidGoldin - 07 Apr 2010

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>		I myself am no stranger to conspicuous consumption. I buy expensive cerulean handbags, go to Miss This-or-that parties, etc. Nonetheless, sometimes a new product or service comes out which just takes society's quest to create new "needs" too far, even for me. Many of you surely rolled your eyes at this a while ago, but I'm putting it here anyway(particularly because I was amazed to hear two old nurses talking about it on the subway this morning.) That's all.

-- KalliopeKefallinos - 10 Apr 2010


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