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...Staff writer Ross A. Macdonald can be reached at jrmacdon@fas.harvard.edu...
...masters, no matter how out of date ("elegant!"), out of touch ("timeless!"), or dowdy ("refined!"). This discrepancy was blatantly apparent at the recent haute couture shows in Paris. The big show of the season should have been Givenchy's. It was 28-year-old Welshman Julien Macdonald's turn to try to revamp the legendary house after enfant terrible Alexander McQueen quit to build his own brand with Gucci Group. Macdonald, who once designed knitwear for McQueen, played it safe. Very safe. Macdonald makes dull Paris debut, said London's Independent. The collection was lovely, but not ground-breaking...
...household traded names like Ron Hextall, Kirk Muller, and John Ogrodnick. Nobody ever marveled at Lane MacDonald '89 or the Fusco brothers. I had heard of Hobey Baker only because former Devil Tom Kurvers won the award...
...Their client had a long history of smoking and high blood pressure, which suggests that more than diet drugs were at the root of her health problems. Still, she was awarded a whopping $23 million by a small-town jury. In the Linnen case a theatrical Boston attorney, Alex MacDonald, pleading passionately for Linnen's family and shredding the defense's witnesses, forced the drugmaker's high-powered legal team to capitulate in mid-trial and offer a multimillion-dollar settlement rather than risk an even larger jury verdict...
...West and wrote tunes that were the most popular of their day and still play in the nation's memory-jukebox; Harold Arlen's score for The Wizard of Oz is entrancing TV audiences 60 years after it was written. Pop music shared center stage with operetta (in Jeanette MacDonald's films) and boogie-woogie (in shorts showcasing such jazz greats as Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington...