Word: dust
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...Time to dust off the art-history books. For fall, designers have taken inspiration from early 20th century Vienna. Led by the famous Wiener Werkstätte, the Vienna design scene flourished with bold, graphic patterns often in black and white. Today the look is reborn in Andrew Gn's collection of clutches for Leiber and Dior's dazzling diamond-encrusted watch. At Proenza Schouler, models looked as though they had traveled back through time, swaddled in lush fur collars and cloche hats. On the home front, Baker's furniture line by Laura Kirar echoes the lines of Josef Hoffman...
...sport; she studied classical ballet at George Balanchine's School of American Ballet. When she didn't make the Olympic team, "I had to learn a big life lesson," she says, "which is that when you are so obsessed by something and you can no longer do it, you dust yourself off and keep going...
...acid test is on the ground. Next to a red-dust sports field in the center of Botswana's capital Gaborone, ACHAP conducts HIV tests and performs basic medical examinations in a portable cabin. John Furala Kahindi, 36, is a volunteer who runs packed-out basketball and fitness programs targeted at the young. He works closely with ACHAP. It laid his basketball court - even bringing NBA stars to open it - and in return he funnels his charges to the cabin for regular tests, blood donations and counseling. As a passionate sportsman whose love for the game led him to quit...
...epics) and on TV (where, in the 1958-59 season, six of the seven top-rated series were oaters). A decade later, the form was revitalized in the spaghetti westerns starring Clint Eastwood and directed by Sergio Leone. But by the late 1970s the genre had virtually bit the dust. Natural western stars might very occasionally be able to get on a horse and shoot it out--like Eastwood in Unforgiven, Kevin Costner in Dances with Wolves and Open Range--but only through an expenditure of their clout...
...Once the dust clears, Abe's departure could also signal a return to the old Japan. Abe was elected less than a year ago, promising to centralize power in the Prime Minister's office--traditionally weak compared with those of other countries--and promote a more assertive Japan abroad. Instead, the influence has shifted back to behind-the-scenes power brokers, and the country appears to be retreating from the world stage. At this uncertain point, it seems Japan could go any way but forward...