Word: 1950s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Gianni Versace came of age, isn't the sort of place where enviably tasteful women nibble on lunch and devour the most recent issues of Vogue. A small city with a rich Greco-Roman heritage, it has become increasingly downtrodden during the past decades. Growing up there in the 1950s and '60s, Versace witnessed the miserable postwar poverty that filled the streets, but could find elegance in the turquoise Strait of Messina that lay just beyond them. His was a city where Calabrian Mafiosi thrived in all their cheap glamour and children once passed the hours in ancient ruins. Versace...
...little. In the past several years NASA has been quietly reinventing itself. The slow and swollen agency that grew so fat in the post-Apollo years has been painstakingly downsizing itself to something approaching the agency it was first designed to be when it was founded in the late 1950s: a crew of garage engineers cobbling spacecraft from simple parts and getting the job done both on budget and on deadline...
...pictures with Frank Capra. He made only four films with Hitchcock. But he made eight with Anthony Mann, more than with any other director, and five of those were westerns with a cynical edge that anticipated the "dark" westerns of Sergio Leone and Sam Peckinpah. These appeared in the 1950s, when American innocence was challenged and betrayed by a worldwide conspiracy, by a treason of the knowing and elite, when even Stewart had to show a retaliating bitterness...
Back in Austin, surrounded by rusty mining tools and curling 1950s girlie calendars, Wolfers sweeps up the last few splinters of glass. "This is their playground." He looks up at the sky. "They come in here from out East, all full of beans, and do their loop-the-loops and smash things up, and then their superiors cover up for them. They don't want bad news to get out. We locals know, though." Presumably Wolfers is talking about the Navy again, although he never specifies who "they" are. In central Nevada, "they" might be anyone...
DIED. LAWRENCE PAYTON, 59, Motown master of harmony who sang with the indestructible Four Tops; of liver cancer; in Southfield, Mich. What began as a teenage gig for Payton in the 1950s became a lifelong commitment to seamless choreography and the precise vocals that typified such Tops hits as Baby I Need Your Loving and Reach Out, I'll Be There...