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At least, they seemed to be last month at the fashion show where the student designs were shown off to a cheering audience and a panel of alumni experts, including Michael Alexin, Target’s vice president for product design and development.

“Remember, Oberlin is a liberal arts college with no design department,” said Mr. Alexin, who worked with the students throughout the process.

“We thought we were being aggressive,” said Michael Alexin, a Target vice president for product design and development, “but I guess we weren’t being aggressive enough.”

Yet in Blow-Up, Antonioni's anti-hero holds in his possession, if only for an instant, the alexin of his cure: the saving grace of the spirit.

As the author expressly admitted later, it was an expansion or paraphrase of Virgil's second eclogue— "Formosum pastor Corydon ardebat Alexin."