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...Most listeners, though, didn't know that the countrified "The Three Bells" ("Les trois cloches" by Jean Villard) or the Paul Anka "All of a Sudden My Heart Sings" (by Jean-Marie Blanvillain and Laurent Henri Herpin) or "Mack the Knife" (which had five versions in the Top 20 from 1956 to 1959, including Bobby Darin's #1) had come to Tin Pan Alley through Ellis Island. This was music they heard, liked and bought. I also doubt that the decade's record producers were trying to broaden the masses' musical palette; they probably figured that, since catchy tunes were...
...Japanese designers like Miyake and Hanae Mori appeared on the international fashion scene in the 1970s, it was a decade later when Paris really took notice. The era was one of excess: Claude Montana and Thierry Mugler were focused on enhancing shoulders with exaggerated padding; Valentino and Yves Saint Laurent were creating rococo fantasies of beading, silk and ruffles. Amid the froufrous and frills, Kawakubo and Yamamoto rolled out their collections and set Paris on its ear. The clothes were revolutionary, shocking - stark, unstructured and overwhelmingly black. Bewildered critics dubbed Kawakubo's first Paris collection in 1981 - with its frayed...
...Which may explain why French Finance Minister Laurent Fabius reportedly had to talk O'Neill out of playing hooky from some talks to go for a spin in his Audi convertible...
...telling break from tradition is his refusal to have billboards of his portrait erected. Both Mobutu and Laurent-Désiré Kabila fueled a cult of personality through posters, songs and, in Mobutu's case, a nightly pre-news video showing him floating Godlike in the clouds. "I know how I look, so I don't need to have a poster to realize that I look like Joseph," he says. "Has it really got any meaning? Times have changed. The expectations of the people of the Congo are not to see Joseph on posters or to listen to songs...
...peace deal signed 20 months ago by the main protagonists - and requiring a cease-fire and the deployment of U. N. observers - has begun to take hold; most analysts agree that Laurent-Désiré was the main obstacle to peace. Rwanda and Uganda have pulled back troops; Zimbabwe and Angola are beginning to do the same. By last week, the U.N. had deployed 828 observers and troops and, says Squadron Leader Paul Beard of Britain, "there's a bit of momentum building up that is getting difficult to resist...