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Fashion has often dipped into the '50s for inspiration, but these days skirts by the likes of Hussein Chalayan, Karl Lagerfeld and Marc Jacobs are looking distinctly fuller and wider. It's now possible to wear a twin set and full pleated skirt without irony. (The poodle skirt, however, is still out of the question.) Auto designers are also beginning to use some of the hallmark motifs of the midcentury cars. Besides the fins planned for the Cadillac, the 1999 Mustang has triangular wind scoops on the side reminiscent of the 1964 model, and Ford is reintroducing the Thunderbird...
...over-domineering mother in complete denial that anything is wrong with her family; Thomas Derrah mumbles his way convincingly through Margaret's stroke-victim husband Paul's virtually incomprehensible speeches. In contrast to Margaret Brennan's fruitless and overeager attempts to raise a normal family, Boo's parents, Karl and Soot, are the archetypal alcoholic husband and seriously oppressed sex-toy wife. Will Lebow, playing Boo's father, spurts a stream of obscene jokes, sexist comments and alcohol-induced insults, deftly making you want to strangle him; and Paula Plum, playing Boo's mother, giggles her way adeptly into...
Ever since Michael Jordan stripped Karl Malone of the basketball and raced off to his sixth championship title in June, fans have wondered whether Jordan would hit the hardwood for another season. But now, with NBA team owners and players locked in a bitter contract dispute, the question is whether anyone else will show up, either...
That Anne Frank is remembered at all can be attributed to Nazi priorities: first, round up Jews; next, confiscate their valuables. Books and personal scribblings were optional. That is what happened on Aug. 4, 1944 when, on a tip, SS Oberscharfuhrer Karl Josef Silberbauer and his men broke into the annex behind Otto Frank's foodstuffs firm at 263 Prinsengracht in Amsterdam. The raiders arrested the Franks and four others who shared their secret quarters. Furniture and salable items were removed...
...Reported by Karl Taro Greenfeld and Aixa M. Pascual/New York, Alison Jones/Raleigh and Adam Zagorin/Washington