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...create the elegant dresses and pillbox hats that made her the most stylish, most copied First Lady in U.S. history; on Long Island, New York. After dressing Marilyn Monroe and onetime fianc? Grace Kelly in Hollywood, the pioneer "celebrity designer" set up shop in New York City in the 1950s, launching still-popular trends such as A-line dresses before taking the White House position in 1961. His motto: "Be mobile at all times...
...deputy director of the French Institute on International Relations, "rejecting any prospect of more risk." Fear of losing jobs in a country that is poor at creating new ones may be the cause of the moment. But French ambivalence about a changing world is nothing new. In the 1950s, French novelist Pierre Daninos suggested it was part of the national psyche to battle gallantly - if often fruitlessly - against invasion, as national treasures such as Joan of Arc once did. By that measure, the French in the streets last week were fighting to hold back the inexorable challenge of international competition...
...according to Thomas. “They’re the best singers singing the best songs that the Kroks have had,” he adds. During the second half of the program, in which the current ensemble will perform, 18 Krok alumni from the 1940s and 1950s will join the group on stage for a rendition of the Kroks’ signature song: “Johnny O’Conner.” The program will conclude with “Loch Lomond,” during which all alumni will be invited to the stage...
...Winkle had dozed off in the 1950s, he might not have felt completely out of place waking up at the annual meeting of China's parliament, the National People's Congress (NPC), which wrapped up a week-long session on Tuesday. Here was Premier Wen Jiabao intoning the importance of "building a new socialist countryside." There were education officials unveiling a campaign to publish dozens of new Marxist university textbooks. NPC delegates, who had dutifully attended mandatory sessions to study speeches by Chairman Mao, even failed to pass a Western-style property rights law because, in part, Party leftists felt...
...Angeles since 1978—341 miles and a decade away from equally Californian graphic artists in Haight-Ashbury, who invented the psychedelic poster aesthetic for then-new rock bands like Jefferson Airplane and The Grateful Dead.Hockney has been selling paintings since he was in art school in the 1950s and is best known for his large, realistic canvases of scenes that appear typically “L.A.”; people are frequent subject matter, but so are architectural terraces and geometrically rendered, perfectly landscaped backyard pools. “David Hockney Portraits” is the first exhibit...