Word: goldener
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...wrong to think that Westerns were flights from Cold War reality or the political issues of the day. The form attracted serious young writers, like Gore Vidal, a graduate of TV's Golden Age of live drama, who wrote The Left-Handed Gun, a Billy the Kid film that one critic called "Freud on the Range." There were plenty of mature, psychologically complex Westerns. In the original 3:10 to Yuma, the career killer and decent farmer hole up in a hotel room and have an extended existentialist conversation - like Sartre or Beckett, but at gunpoint. In Anthony Mann...
...Golden Jubilee Bridges (2), left, is the official name for the pair of footbridges that now link the south bank with the West End, although Londoners still use the name of the railway bridge between them: the Hungerford Bridge...
...couture clothing. But for most, it's an exclusive art form known only through pictures or the occasional museum exhibit. Opening Sept. 22 at London's V&A is one such show that gives visitors an almost unprecedented in-depth look into couture's most glamorous era. "The Golden Age of Couture: Paris and London 1947-1957" will display more than 100 dresses designed by haute couture's most revered names, among them Givenchy, Balmain, Balenciaga, Schiaparelli and, of course, Dior. The exhibit covers everything from suits and cocktail dresses to the undersides of evening gowns to documentary artifacts like...
...lyrics, which focus on his "entourage of completely wasted people," reflect what it's like to live in a society fraught with uncertainty and violent change. One song, Let It Go, is both an exhortation to ignore one's mounting problems and an elegiac farewell to the city's golden moment that followed the Cedar Revolution. "It's an Arab thing," explains Haber. "They always go back to the ruins and cry and remember their lovers. In Beirut it happens every decade--the city is destroyed and then rebuilt. It disappears and then appears. That...
...foreign visitor might find it strange to discover a rock subculture in the Middle East, but Scrambled Eggs vocalist Haber, a former Catholic schoolboy, sees a similarity between the U.S. in rock's golden age during the 1950s and '60s and the Middle East today--sexually repressed conservative societies dominated by religion and an ideological cold war. "At the end of the day, sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll means freedom," he says...