Word: parise
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Crossover is nothing new. The Viennese violinist Fritz Kreisler recorded Irving Berlin tunes in 1927, around the same time that a Tin Pan Alley refugee named George Gershwin sent wigs flying with such concert scores as An American in Paris. What has changed is that today's listeners, raised in...
The problem with pret-a-porter collections is that unlike couture, the clothes are supposed to be worn by people other than the preternaturally skeletal and rich. This isn't as much fun for the designers. Perhaps that's why in Paris last week, fashion's famous let their wilder...
In St. Paul, America's 57th largest city, we're all right with that. Nobody who sits near me at the ballpark seems to feel personally diminished by living in a minor league city. We do not consider ourselves fundamentally so different from Duluthites or Sioux Fallsians or Fargo-Moorheaders...
They were, of course, the lucky ones. Between 1933 and 1944, America's record in admitting refugees from Nazism was dismal, a moral blot. Less than half the already stingy immigrant quotas were filled because of the timidity of Franklin Roosevelt and the pigheaded xenophobia of his Under Secretary of...
Given the subsequent fame that many of the artists enjoyed, one is apt to suppose that their emigre life (especially in America) was secure, but actually it depended on stipends, teaching jobs and ad hoc support arranged by dealers--many of them emigres themselves, like Curt Valentin--and by a...