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...author of the magisterial The Gulag Archipelago is faring as a creative writer is unknown. All the works he has published since his deportation from the Soviet Union ten years ago have been either books completed before his exile, like the powerful memoir The Oak and the Calf, or speeches and articles of a political nature, like his sententious Warning to the West. In addition, he has revised many of his earlier books and added long historical sections to his novel August...
...ecstatic, energetic piece. At one moment the men will be carrying women over their heads or bundled in their arms; the next, each woman will be freely leaping or extending her leg. Similarly, there are periods of intense concentration--a man holding the base of a woman's calf, while she, on point, holds her other leg in a perfect attitude behind her--side by side with handstands, rolls and headstands. The entire melange of features--the bright colors of the leotards, the bells and drums of the orchestra, and the sometimes deeply religious choral music--together with the dancers...
...Paris firmament. Courreges set up his shop in 1961, soon became known as the trouser king for his slim, slit-at-the-bottom slacks and his formal trouser suits. This February his pencil-thin mannequins popped out in white dresses cut three inches above the knee and mid-calf boots open at the toe. The high-flying hem was born...
...hemline watchers, the news is mixed. Some designers are still trying to revive miniskirts, but in general, hemlines are going down, reaching to mid-calf or even lower. Explains Zack Carr, head of Klein's design studio: "The longer length looks more relaxed and gives a sense of languidness...
...just about anyone else lately-has done. He balances the weight of Döblin's carefully repetitious dialogue with the buoyancy of his creamy, elegiac visual style. He interrupts the naturalism of lives on the skids with scenes of shocking surrealism: an old goat-man slaughters a calf; Mieze's corpse turns to soft-focus glitter, as if she had become in death a Hollywood star; a scorpion clambers up the entwined legs of two lovers, across the woman's breast and into the bloody gape of her slit throat. In the past, Fassbinder had seemed...