Word: heydays
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...dark and complicated takes on the western--Robert Altman's McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven, Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove--but they, like westerns themselves in recent years, have been as occasional as tumbleweeds. We still associate the genre with the moral simplicity and cliche of its heyday: straight-shooting, black and white hats. (When President Bush said he wanted Osama bin Laden "dead or alive," he wasn't going for relativism.) Are we ready for the genre of John Wayne and Shane to get the gray-hatted HBO treatment...
...fashion mavens. Downstairs, in what was once the couture salon, an exhibit entitled "Dialogue with Art" highlighted some of Saint Laurent's iconic silhouettes: the Mondrian dresses, the Picasso homage of intricately beaded capes splashed with Cubist images, the Pop Art dresses indebted to Andy Warhol. In his heyday Saint Laurent was inspired by artists as much as by the women he dressed. These days it's unusual to see anything totally original in fashion, because so many designers look to the past - to the work of people like Saint Laurent - for inspiration. This season particularly, the fall 2004 runways...
...with massive entourages that made impossible demands and gave outrageous tips?long before Arab sheiks got into the habit. The nizam and his ilk have disappeared from the world's glamour magazines and gossip columns, but a new coffee-table book, The Unforgettable Maharajas, reminds us that in their heyday India's royals built palaces, collected Rolls-Royces, and hunted exotic animals like no one else on earth...
...real star is Trump, who commits a surprising amount of time to the camera. A little jowlier than you may remember from his '80s heyday yet still imposing, he's a stiff narrator but comes alive in the "boardroom," site of the climactic firing meetings, charming his candidates one minute, curtly smacking them down the next. Trump and Burnett, trying to distinguish The Apprentice as the brainy reality alternative, like to say there is "no dating" on it. That's not true. The men and women alike try to win Trump's heart, to learn what moves him, to find...
Charleroi, a grimy, working-class town in southwest Belgium, was big in the Industrial Revolution. Its mines once churned out 10 million tons of coal a year. All that's left of that heyday are 62 slag heaps. Even covered in grass, they're not what you'd call a tourist attraction. Yet approximately 2 million people a year come to this forgettable place - thanks to a revolution in Europe's airline industry. In 2000, Irish discount flyer Ryanair agreed to make an international hub of Charleroi's airport, when the town shaved standard landing charges from...