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Saint Laurent is the first person to be honored with a Metropolitan retrospective while he is still active. (The only other couturier to have been the subject of a one-man show at the Met: the Spanish designer Cristobal Balenciaga, in 1973.) The choice was made by the museum's director and by the Costume Institute's special consultant, Diana Vreeland, whose judgment it reflects. Says the legendary former editor of Vogue and Harper's Bazaar, with the certitude and gusto that she has retained into her eighth decade: "Saint Laurent has been built into the history...
...accident. Those who sent the suicide bomber crashing into Marine headquarters were staging an attack, a kind of one-man Tet offensive designed to revive the feelings of demoralization that precede withdrawal. For the power of the Viet Nam memory is well known, even among those not steeped in American history. Druze Leader Walid Jumblatt, for one, has no trouble recalling and manipulating it. Jumblatt, who can be best described as a minor local chieftan, has found that he can puff himself up on American television, warn Americans to remember Viet Nam before daring to challenge him-and be taken...
Which is why the rivalry, such as it is, usually highlighted in terms of football. That is one area where in recent years. Yale has clearly excelled. While one might expect athletics at an academically elite institution to play only a minor role. Yale apologists have insisted that their school's success reflects its characters: "Harvard men might win the one-man competitions, but the team competitions went regularly and decisively to Yale," writes Pierson...
...Paul Scoon, meanwhile, became in effect a one-man local government, backed by the authority of U.S. guns. He acted decisively in severing all diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union and Libya, ordering them to close their embassies. He directed that the Cubans retain only one diplomat on the island. The three embassies were guarded by U.S. troops. Officially, this was for the protection of the diplomats. Privately, a State Department official in Washington admitted, "We don't want them rattling around the island...
With Bird a one-man wrecking crew, the Celtics raced to a 37-34 lead after one period. They slowed down in the second quarter, but were in command, 59-48, at the half...