With cute bowties, a flattering elasticated waist, no zip insertion and clever construction, this is a dress guaranteed to make you feel happy.
Women pound through the piazzas like stern librarians; workmen zip around myriad restoration and construction sites.
During a visit in mid-April, the zip line was just one of the projects construction workers were rushing to finish before the island's peak summer season begins in late May.
When she first arrived to work at this imposing brick building in March 1963, John F. Kennedy was president, ZIP codes were not yet in use, and the nearby Verrazano-Narrows Bridge was still under construction.
But Los Angeles will go even further: construction jobs will be targeted for workers from high-poverty ZIP codes and apprenticeship programs, and the recently incarcerated.
A bicycle zips by on the right, cars switch lanes to avoid the construction, and a passing light rail train blocks a line of drivers hoping to make a left turn.
For three months, I zipped myself into my plastic-encased bedroom at night, and I stepped over construction materials as I entered and left.
Still, Mr. Sullivan is regularly seen zipping around town in his silver Range Rover on his way to inspect that $15 million construction project, which includes an 18-seat movie theater, a private art gallery and a lagoon.
Meanwhile, down in Chelsea, late black paintings by Rothko and Reinhardt and all-black, wooden constructions by Louise Nevelson occupy one part of the gallery, along with a velvety blue zip painting by Barnett Newman and a bright orange monochrome by Robert Ryman.
If his claim of feeling no pain is true, zipping around the country doing performances is surely more fun that working all hours of the day on a construction site for pitiful wages, as he did before.
