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...showing her, um, wrong side. "I start on a huge platform raised at least two stories off the ground and I have to walk down a stairway, while singing, in five-inch heels," she explains. "My dream is that I trip and start rolling down the stairs, my dress goes over my head and everyone can see my underwear...
...Vietnamese settlers. As with the February uprising, the underlying issues appear to be land encroachment and increasing resentment of the Kinh majority among members of the region's 38 hill tribes. Collectively known as Montagnards by the former French colonialists, the hill people are famous for their colorful dress and dance, ruou or rice wine ceremonies?and their recruitment by U.S. special forces during the Vietnam War. But the unrest goes beyond minority rights and transmigration problems. The central highlands' troubles are a microcosm of all the contentious issues facing Vietnam?land disputes, corruption, a shaky economy and accusations...
...compressed automobiles, Claes Oldenburg's Store with its huge floppy pie and ice-cream cone, the aluminum-foil recreation of Andy Warhol's Factory - signals that this is a show to be experienced rather than just observed. Similarly, the inclusion of consumer products - from Yves Saint Laurent's Mondrian dress to plastic radio bracelets and Star Trek-like chairs - turns the exhibit into an exercise in pop-cultural archaeology, akin to opening a time capsule or poking around your mother's attic. The greatest irony, as this show demonstrates, is that an era whose credo was "forever young" now belongs...
...Lulu is supposed to be a force of nature, seduction incarnate, but Friel just doesn't have the charisma. What she does have, from her first entrance in a figure-hugging scarlet dress, is great physical presence. Happiest lolling on her back on one of a succession of increasingly extravagant chaise-longues, she swivels her long legs like antennae. But when she speaks, her flat, ordinary delivery comes as a shock. Only in the grim final scene, when Lulu is reduced to working as a prostitute in a London cellar, does Friel let her natural Northern accent come through...
...ended up in a mental hospital, kept under heavy sedation. Finally, his lover Pierre Bergé secured his release, and the two created the house of Yves Saint Laurent in 1961. His ideas went down much better in the relaxed atmosphere of the 1960s - creations like the Mondrian dress and the Le Smoking jacket became style icons. Saint Laurent became part of the jet set, socializing with Catherine Deneuve and Andy Warhol. Enthralled with youth culture, he opened Yves Saint Laurent Rive Gauche, a store of less expensive ready-to-wear, on the hip left bank. Bergé meanwhile worked...