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...string of Rive Gauche shops, started in 1966, that sell Saint Laurent's ready-to-wear line. There are only a few examples in the museum show; Vreeland insists that the pieces are hard to find because owners refuse to part with treasures like the YSL classic military overcoat for the nine-month duration of the exhibition, and, she notes, "I don't blame them." Rive Gauche wear is hardly cheap ($1,500 for a wool suit and a silk blouse), but it is durable, seldom extreme and has a shrewd gloss of couture luxury, mostly...
...forced to take power through violent means, the prospects for a democratic, Black-ruled South Africa are not encouraging. An entire generation of Blacks is already being schooled in violence. As one South African liberal in exile in this country says, violence "cannot simply be thrown off like an overcoat with the job is done...
President Roosevelt, without hat or overcoat in the chill wind, swung around to the crowd before him, launched vigorously into his inaugural address. His easy smile was gone. His large chin was thrust out defiantly as if at some invisible, insidious foe. A challenge rang in his clear strong voice. For 20 vibrant minutes he held his audience, seen and unseen, under a strong spell...
...Zola and Claude Monet helped carry his coffin to the grave. In life, his milieu had included nearly every French artist of significance, along with writers of the stature of Charles Baudelaire and Stéphane Mallarmé; the latter called him "goat-footed, a virile innocence in beige overcoat, beard and thin blond hair graying with wit." Dressed to the nines, Manet was celebrated as a dandy in that city of dandies, Paris. To read his friends and admirers, you would suppose that he never uttered a pompous word. His sense of measure, corrected by self-doubt, found expression...
...born Wunderkind who was playing the piano at 3 and composing at 5, Gould won critical acclaim as a young man for performances that pulsed with rhythmic dynamism and exuberance while retaining clarity and subtlety. He was almost as famous for such oddball habits as wearing gloves, scarf and overcoat in summer. Gould ended his concert career in 1964, concentrating after that on recordings. He defended his idiosyncratic approach by saying, "Music is a malleable art, acquiescent and philosophically flexible...