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...come up and be like, that's what they've been saying the whole time? I thought I knew [Billy Joel's] "We Didn't Start the Fire" and then I looked at the lyrics and realized I had at least three or four of the entries about the 1950s wrong. And for 20 years, I'd thought the chorus to David Bowie's "Young Americans" was "She was a young American." While at karaoke earlier this summer, I realized he was actually singing "she wants a young American." It's only one word, but it completely changes the meaning...
With sales tumbling to levels last seen back in the 1950s, General Motor Corp., Ford Motor Co. and Chrysler LCC updated plans for restructuring and justifying requests for billions in federal...
...College and has conducted research in Beijing and Cairo under Professor Xiao Yuan Liu, then a visiting professor at Harvard. Explaining his research interests in oriental studies, Haddad-Fonda said that in order to understand current Sino-Arab affairs, a historical perspective is necessary, especially with regard to the 1950s, when China and the Middle-East first began to have closer contact with each other...
...Cooke's day job, as The Guardian's American correspondent, gave him carte blanche to crisscross his favorite country and send back his impressions of it. It also afforded him access to the glamorous people he'd revered watching them on a Blackpool movie screen. (In the 1950s Cooke's traveling companions were his second wife Jane and their friends, Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall.) The famous somehow fell into his lap. Cooke was Greta Garbo's unofficial cigarette lighter, though he once said the most beautiful woman he'd ever met was Ava Gardner. They were charmed...
...home, however, is reductive to say the least.Last month, the Harvard Film Archive presented a series of films from Conner that included “Cosmic Ray” in its program. Conner, who began his career as a figure in Beat circles in San Francisco in the mid-1950s, was active until his death earlier this year and remains an enigmatic icon in 20th century American art. Though he worked extensively in drawing, painting, and as a collage artist throughout his long and prolific career, Conner first gained attention for his sculpture work. These pieces were composed entirely...