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...early years she seemed uncomfortably slavish, bringing her husband breakfast in bed and, according to author Caro, she laid out his clothes, unbuttoned his shirts, put in the collar stays and cuff links, filled his fountain pens and put them in the proper pocket, filled his cigarette lighter and put a handkerchief and money in their pockets. But as Johnson climbed higher, Lady Bird found her world expanding...
Sunny, oracular and indefatigable, Libeskind tends to smile, especially when he's at his most argumentative. He knows that people like their geniuses to be daringly off the cuff sometimes. So he sketched out his initial plan for the museum on a dozen or so napkins, which the ROM duly displayed behind frames when it mounted a show of proposals by the architects in the running for the commission. But ROM director William Thorsell says that Libeskind followed up his napkins with the most thorough analysis of the project offered by any of the contenders...
...naked. Next, a grinning full-figured woman with silver-streaked hair. Then comes an age-spotted shoulder. Finally, a long-legged beauty with cropped gray hair and--egads!--a lined neck and a furrowed brow poses in the buff, save for a pair of dangling earrings and a cuff bracelet...
...goal in playing was not to show a “demo of his tricks” but to encourage students to play beyond their own limits. Nonetheless, his tricks were in full effect when he played. “So that’s basically just off-the-cuff sort of playing,” he said as he put down his drumsticks after a complex drum solo, drawing a laugh from the audience. Viglione insisted that his theatrical style does not come from the ego, but from an effort to be free to the present...
Style meets technology with Zegna Sport's new iJacket, below, a double-layered, waterproof shell with an inside pocket that accommodates an iPod. For easy use, the iPod is connected to a clear panel near the outside left cuff of the jacket that the wearer uses to control the iPod's functions without having to open the jacket or the inside pocket. The iJacket can be washed like a normal jacket, without any extra care...