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...Look hired him as an assistant. The young man had been interested since childhood in theatrical costume and set design and was delighted to be apprenticed to Dior. Four years later, when Dior died suddenly of a heart attack, Saint Laurent was chosen by Textile Magnate Marcel Boussac, who owned the couture house, to succeed him. In 1958 he produced a brilliant debut collection that introduced an A-line dress called the trapeze. It was an instantaneous success. The French, who invented the modern concept of a couturier, celebrated in the street. The boy wonder, tall, handsome and painfully...
...DIED. Marcel Dalio, 83, demitasse-size comic and dramatic actor in French and Hollywood films; in Paris. Born Israel Moshe Blauschild of Rumanian Jewish parents, Dalio made his movie debut in 1933 and came to prominence in Pepe le Moko (1937). For Director Jean Renoir he anchored two great films, playing Rosen-thai, the reluctantly heroic clown in Grand Illusion, and the Marquis, a sweet cuckold dancing under the war clouds in The Rules of the Game. With his photograph posted by the Nazis on Paris street corners as the "typical Jew," Dalio fled occupied France for Hollywood...
SITE at first made paper waves. It flooded art and architecture schools with publications expounding the Wines-Sky message and with exhibits showing unbuilt projects, mostly of buildings blending, melting, seemingly dissolving into their surroundings. The word "de-architecture" was often used. Dadaist Marcel Duchamp's name was frequently cited as an inspiration...
...yellow tapers. By it in a clean white surplice stood the Rev. R. Anderson Jardine awaiting the greatest moment in his life. Hollow-eyed, the Duke of Windsor stepped in a moment later, accompanied by his elegantly groomed best man, Major Edward Dudley ("Fruity") Metcalfe. While Organist Marcel Dupre played the march from Handel's Judas Maccabeus, entered (Bessie) Wallis Warfield (Spencer) (Simpson) on the arm of the faithful Herman Rogers. She wore a dress that most U. S. department stores were soon to feature: soft blue crepe with a tight, buttoned bodice, a halo-shaped...
NONFICTION: Andropov. Zhores A. Medvedev •The Book of America, Neal R. Peirce and Jerry Hagstrom Gorillas in the Mist, Dian Fossey Lost in the Cosmos. Walker Percy Marcel Proust: Selected Letters, Philip Kolb, editor •The Rosenberg File, Ronald Radosh and Joyce Milton