Coincidentally or not, Ms. MacGraw's boho ski-lodge sensibility is reflected in much of Mr. Azroüel's fall line, including a blanketlike Fair Isle sweater-coat ($950) and a creamy soft cable-knit sweater, a shrunken version of the L. L. Bean classic with a punkish jagged bottom hem.
It would look right at home on one of the softer cable channels that traffic in easy inspiration, though the last half-hour includes some obligatory kneeling and sobbing, and Christian pop that would make programming executives uneasy.
(Grace card — race card). It would look right at home on one of the softer cable channels that traffic in easy inspiration, though the last half-hour includes some obligatory kneeling and sobbing, and Christian pop that would make programming executives uneasy.
The teasing nature of the shows — the eternal promise of the ultimate sighting, eternally unfulfilled — might remind you more than a little of late-night, soft-core cable pornography.
Even the throbbing score, by Mychael Danna, sounds unwittingly risible, and there were times — I refer you to David's first, salivating gaze at Chloe across a coffee shop — when I felt that we could be watching one of those soft-core cable dramas starring the redoubtable Shannon Tweed, with titles like "Night Raptures IV" or "Executive Sensations".
This week the Supreme Court ruled to allow round-the-clock soft porn on cable.
Pitched somewhere between after-hours cable soft-core and an overambitious student art film, "Stripped Down" is bad in so many ways I can't help but feel a slightly tender affection for it.
Syndeo, at one point a 150-person company, had built and deployed a DOCSIS-based voice over IP soft switch for the cable industry.
He scraped a living writing soft-core porn for cable TV, then become a foreign sales agent.
