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...making beautiful clothes?used to list the textile mills where these raw materials of fashion dreams were woven. A journalist on deadline who now might be more familiar with the spelling of Lindsay Lohan's name once had to know how to spell the names of the famous fabric houses: Ratti, Bucol, Gandini, Clerici, Guigou, Mantero and, of course, Abraham, the Swiss fabric house owned by Gustav Zumsteg, the late, great textile designer who invented the stiffly finished silk gazar that gave shape to Balenciaga's gowns and who also collaborated with Saint Laurent, Coco Chanel and Hubert de Givenchy...
...their only championship, and later, with Larry Bird, pushed the Boston Celtics to four consecutive NBA finals and two championships; of a heart attack; in Austin, Texas. The man opponent Magic Johnson called the "best backcourt defender of all time" excelled in postseason games. His most famous play with Bird was in the last five seconds of Game 5 of the 1987 Eastern Conference Championship against the Detroit Pistons, in which Bird whipped Johnson the ball after stealing a pass--and Johnson, off-balance, pushed aside an opponent to lay it up and win the game by a point. Immediately...
...aspires to create something different. “In all of the scripts that Ricki has written, there’s a balance that hearkens back, which at the same time is edgy for this time period,” he says. For a man who has become famous for breaking the taboos of television comedy, all of this preoccupation with the past might seem strange. “I’m not exactly up to date,” MacFarlane says. Asked to predict last week’s Academy Awards, he answers...
...decade as a working artist, began to establish a reputation along with Franz Ackermann, Jorge Pardo, Tobias Rehberger and a rising generation of young iconoclasts. Majerus made waves by painting the entire façade of the Italian pavilion at the 1999 Venice Biennale with a pastiche of famous artworks. In 2002 he covered Berlin's famed Brandenburg Gate with a digital rendering of a graffiti-blighted East Berlin housing block...
...It’s easy to see it that way from where we stand. All around us there are success stories of people overcoming overwhelming odds. Although these concepts can pop up in multiple contexts, the paradigmatic example is the 19th century American author, Horatio Alger, and his famous rags-to-riches stories. The popularity of this theme is exemplified by Alger’s success and continues to be the driving force in the concept of the American Dream...