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...that by dint of its intricate silk, tulle and horsehair-hemmed organza underskirts seemed to float away from the body as if by magnetic force. It was a sensation. The fashion press, not given to understatement even in 1958, proclaimed, "Yves Saint Laurent has saved France." A new design legend had arrived...
...Legend has it Smith would occasionally chat with residents of Mass. Hall’s B-entryway at the beginning of each term...
...After the crocodile cruise, we take a walk along a waterlogged trail to Nourlangie, an Aboriginal rock shelter dating back 20,000 years, which has several examples of rock art. At the main site the paintings focus on the legend of Namarrgon, or the Lightning Man, the fellow responsible for the storm about to break over our heads. Considering their antiquity, the images are surprisingly clear. We soon learn why. In 1964 a number of the figures were renewed by a respected Aboriginal artist known as Barramundi Charlie who, our guide Rick tells us, painted over older, similar figures...
...Star guard for the Philadelphia 76ers and former Milwaukee Bucks coach; in Fort Myers, Florida. Costello, known as among the last to lob the two-handed set shot, clinched NBA titles alongside Wilt Chamberlain in 1967 and when coaching the Bucks in 1971. DIED. ASHOK KUMAR, 90, Indian screen legend who dazzled audiences in more than 250 films and won Indian cinema's highest honor, the Dadasaheb Phalke Award, in 1989; in Bombay. Kumar starred in mega-hits such as Achhut Kanya and Jewel Thief (see eulogy). DIED. DON TENNANT, 79, the creative advertising whiz who conceived Kellogg's lovable...
True History of the Kelly Gang Ned Kelly, an Australian outlaw who was eventually captured, tried and hanged for murder in 1880, still remains a Down Under hero and legend. He left behind some papers, which Australian-born author Peter Carey deftly incorporates into an exculpatory fictional autobiography of enormous imaginative power, the story of a normally flawed man driven to desperate acts for the sake, ultimately thwarted, of self-defense...