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TIME colleagues pushed for my transfer from Baghdad to the U.S. military hospital in Landstuhl, Germany. They then joined my friends and sister Leslie Flesch in lobbying to get acting Secretary of the Army Les Brownlee to admit me to Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, making me the first reporter wounded in combat known to have received such treatment at the premier hospital reserved for soldiers...
...your soul.” France has revisited the period more cyclically, even if we ignore the easy comparison with this March’s student protests. Iconic film directors like Philippe Garrel and Bernardo Bertolucci have returned to the period on their sets, shooting Les Amants réguliers (2005) and The Dreamers (2004) respectively. Quite ironically, for last winter’s season, the ubiquitous LeClerc retail store—think Gap with French accent—chose ’68 as the theme for their ad campaign. And further south, in Spain, songwriter Ismael Serrano became...
...much as theFrench love fashion, soccer took precedence last week in Paris. Even at the fall 2006 haute couture fashion shows, talk inevitably turned to Zindine Zidane, or "Zizou," France's World Cup star. Some editors went so far as to sport les bleus--the team's cobalt blue jerseys--in his honor...
DIED. Abbye Stockton, 88, trailblazer for women's weight-lifting known as the First Lady of Iron, who in 1947 organized the first official lifting meet for women; in Santa Monica, Calif. With husband Les, Stockton--nicknamed Pudgy for her childhood baby fat--helped popularize Muscle Beach in Santa Monica in the 1930s and '40s with demonstrations that included the human pyramid and the high press, in which she stood on Les' hands while balancing a 100-lb. barbell...
Another poet I met who read for me later on was Richard Howard. I heard him read from his Baudelaire, “Les Fleurs Du Mal” (David Godine). He read at the gallery that hung the originals of Michael Mazur that were used as illustrations for that book. In full black attire, against a backdrop, he hissed the words over his shoulder at his audience in truly a sinister manner; it was very effective. Later, I met both again at a party hosted by a friend on Beacon Hill. Merrill was seated on a couch...