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...pursuit of frontier justice, a vigilante who spared the courts the trouble of a trial by executing the villain himself." The jolt this character gave to literature, by being both so brutal and so popular, was immediate and lasting. "We were a very puritan nation right up through the 1950s," says novelist Loren Estleman. "I think it was people like Mickey Spillane, getting out there and effectively butting his head against the wall that made those walls collapse...
...into boutiques that sell the offbeat fashion of young designers, many of them graduates of the Brussels art school, La Cambre. At No. 100 is Mademoiselle Jean, tel: (32-2) 513 5069, www.mademoisellejean.com, where, amid black padded walls studded with pink ribbons, designer Aurore Jean makes sexy, one-off 1950s-inspired pieces. Ribbons, bows and lingerie feature in her skirts, catsuits and baby-doll tops, and handmade corsets are her speciality. Next door at Y-dress?, tel: (32-2) 502 6981, ydress.com, Swedish-bred Aleksandra Paszkowska pays homage to IKEA with her flat-pack Instant Princess and Emergency Wedding Dresses...
...prosecution, Arizona and Utah authorities hope that other polygamy-abuse cases in the pipeline can be tried without victim testimony, including seven other men from the FLDS community scheduled to stand trial. This is the largest group to be prosecuted for crimes related to their polygamist lifestyle since the 1950s...
...couturier who influenced me the most," says Christian Lacroix, who this season showed somber, voluminous coats that hark back to Balenciaga's work in the 1950s. "His use of materials, the graphic silhouette, the use of black and the influence of the Spanish Renaissance, lace, the pure opulence...
DIED. Jan Murray, 89, stand-up comedian and actor who went from performing variety-show routines at resorts in New York's Catskill Mountains to hosting popular 1950s TV game shows, including Blind Date, Dollar a Second and Treasure Hunt, on which winning contestants got to pick a treasure chest that could contain anything from a big-money check to cabbage; in Beverly Hills, Calif. A native New Yorker who came up in Borscht Belt comedy with Sid Caesar and Buddy Hackett, Murray turned to acting in the 1960s, appearing in films like Thunder Alley and TV shows that included...