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That this macabre imagination is coupled with dazzling craftsmanship gives the designer his heat. Beneath the shock of his antics is a natural talent coupled with technique acquired as a teenage trainee on Savile Row, the London street celebrated for handmade suits. After an apprenticeship of Dickensian harshness, McQueen harnessed his skills to the construction of cunning jackets, curved to just conceal the breasts, and trousers, called "bumsters," slung so low as to be rude...
...competition to design the Jewish Museum in Berlin, Libeskind's name was known only to people who followed architectural theory. Though he was a respected teacher and thinker, he had never built anything. But when the Jewish Museum opened in 2000, with its broken-thunderbolt design and the shock-cut diagonals of its windows, it instantly made him one of the most sought-after architects in the world...
Despite the myriad ways in which flowers are employed--to console, to woo, to cajole--they are seldom used to provoke. They seem too fragile and ephemeral to shock in the ways that fashion and art do so well. But like those media, flowers are subject to trends, and some of the leaders in the field are determined that bouquets should do more than merely decorate...
...breakup of the Space Shuttle Columbia came as a complete shock to America as we woke up on Saturday morning. Most of us had no idea that a shuttle had been aloft for the last 16 days. Israel’s attention had been fixed on themission; their first man in space was on board. But for Americans, this was just another routine shuttle flight; its takeoff and landing would get a passing mention on the evening news, nothing more...
...women died annually when illegally terminating their pregnancy in unsafe conditions. Willing to risk everything to end an unintended pregnancy, women sought out unskilled and unlicensed practitioners with dirty instruments and mutilating procedures. Women suffered innumerable consequences from back-alley abortions, including infections leading to pneumonia and septic shock, perforated internal organs and massive hemorrhaging resulting in infertility and death...