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GLIDERS AND PARATROOPERS The vanguard of the Allied armies was supposed to swoop in silently behind enemy lines, but little went according to plan. Paratroopers were scattered for miles across the countryside, some coming down directly into towns. Many wood-and-canvas gliders were raked by German fire or crashed...
The car has long been popular with visitors to France, and now Florent Dargnies, a 24-year-old entrepreneur, has started a touring company that ferries passengers in and around Paris in vintage 2CVs. Dargnies got the idea for his outfit, 4roues-sous-1parapluie (four wheels under one umbrella, an...
Although ostensibly a fictional account of legendary painter George Seurat’s attempts to create his classic large-canvas masterpiece “Sunday Afternoon on the Isle of La Grande Jatte,” composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim’s Pulitzer-prize winning musical, featuring a...
The subject, we know, was the Middle-earth wars. J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings books handed Jackson a quest story involving dozens of exotic species and hundreds of dreamlike or infernal settings. Over a seven-year stretch in his native New Zealand, Jackson brought this vast canvas...
It is school picture day, 1987: electric blue canvas backdrop, thick brown bangs falling below thick brown eyebrows, stringy saliva-drenched metal retainer covering up awkward smile, training bra stuffed with the requisite sock/tissue/toilet paper conglomeration.