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...craft a pair of riding boots for Douglas Fairbanks Sr. in The Thief of Baghdad. Today his legendary house has teamed up with director Baz Luhrmann and costume designer Catherine Martin to create a wardrobe of shoes for Nicole Kidman's character, a 1940s aristocrat, in the Outback epic Australia. Watch for the ruched red-velvet evening sandals and, yes, riding boots...
...bunch of newly-created memorable moments, I also began to realize that you do not need to do something as extreme as Courtney and I did, though I firmly believe in taking advantage of those opportunities when they present themselves.If you’re not engaged in an epic hockey and sports journalistic pilgrimage, road trips are still a special moment, because embarking on them can lead to a number of memorable “firsts” and discoveries about yourself. Especially since we live in an area in proximity to so many schools, road trips involve anything from...
...first effort at writing verse, but it was the first time I tried to write a long, narrative, epic poem. I somehow decided that doing a book of rhyming couplets would sort of drone on after a while, so I decided to interrupt it with what we're calling "embedded poems." Some of those - maybe about half - are poems that appeared in The Nation. The whole narrative poem is published for the first time in the book...
...used the word "epic." Do you consider this a transformative moment in our national politics...
...morally instructive on us, puts us back in touch with our giddy side, with that old-fashioned, low-minded desire just to know what happens next. There is some elemental human desire - lately largely denied at the cinema - to see pretty people in handsome landscapes assuaging our need for epic romance. On that level, Australia delivers with real panache...