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...COCO'S CLASSIC The contrasting-trim look emerges in 1955 and continues as a classic into the 1960s, when Chanel's suits become de rigueur for the ladies who lunch...
...task force to investigate, and President Bush said he would look into "why the cascade was so significant, why it was able to ripple so significantly throughout our system." But finding answers may mean reviewing yet again the lessons learned from four historic power failures going back to the 1960s, looking at the weird rules that govern how power companies invest their money, and confronting the evidence that an antique grid of twigs and twine cannot meet the demands of 21st century consumers, much less protect itself from anyone who might actually set out to bring it down...
...Marc Chagall was suburbia's favorite genius. He offered modernism without tears, without the headaches of Cubism or the thin air of abstraction. For middle-class Jews, he was also the chronicler of the world of their fathers, the poet of that lost, enchanted universe. By the mid-1960s, when Fiddler on the Roof took its title from one of Chagall's best-known motifs, his popular reputation was at its peak. But in the eyes of an art world that had always been a little unconvinced by him, he had become the middlebrow modernist...
...several occasions in the 1960s, while Epps was touring with the Harvard Glee Club, the group traveled to perform in locales where blacks were unwelcome. On one occasion in 1965, Fanny Peabody Professor of Music Elliot Forbes ’40 reportedly received bomb threats because of plans for Epps to participate in a Birmingham, Ala., concert. Epps was “quietly, deeply upset” when the Glee Club performed without him at the show, Glee Club Secretary William White ’65 said at the time...
...romance and stylish cinematography. Tony Leung and Maggie Cheung star as husband and wife of different marriages, each cheated upon by the other’s spouse. Together they draw solace in a mutual experience of lost love and begin to develop feelings for each other. Unfortunately, 1960s Hong Kong culture is an unforgiving one of starched-collar propriety: will the two acknowledge their newfound love or stay prim and proper? Besides a superbly realized plot, In the Mood for Love also features a lyrical soundtrack of transcultural appeal, ranging from Chinese folk songs to jazzy Nat King...