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...introduced to the world long before the brand began selling menswear in the '70s. Now the company is tuning up its image with the help of four big-name designers, including Nick Ashley, son of the late Laura Ashley, who will create an outerwear collection. Dunhill's ceo Simon Critchell admits that the company needed its 100-year repair. Owned by one of the world's leading luxury goods groups, Richemont, the brand had gradually been losing its direction. "People didn't really know what the brand stood for," says Critchell, formerly of Cartier, who took over...
...should, perhaps, be thankful for small mercies. Since Aug. 6, 1945, we have lived uneasily with the Bomb, and uneasy with it we should always be. But we have lived. --Reported by Aravind Adiga/New Delhi, Michael Brunton and Roland Lloyd Parry/London, Coco Masters/New York, Tim McGirk/Islamabad, Yuki Oda/Tokyo, Simon Robinson/Johannesburg, Mark Thompson/Washington and Yuri Zarakhovich/Moscow...
DIED. CLAUDE SIMON, 91, leading figure in France's "nouveau roman," or new novel, literary movement; author of such acclaimed, stylistically challenging novels as La Route Des Flandres (The Flanders Road) in 1960; and winner of the 1985 Nobel Prize for literature; in Paris...
...love and sex, Bergman was dubbed the Shakespeare of the cinema. Two-week-long retrospectives of his films ran in commercial theaters around the country. Critics in the U.S., Britain, France and Sweden wrote full-length studies of his films. In 1960 Bergman graced the cover of TIME, and Simon & Schuster published a book of four of his screenplays--a rare tribute to a movie playwright. The tonier cocktail parties were rife with debates on the elusive, allusive meanings of such films as The Silence and Persona. A Bergman film was like the toughest, most rewarding college course. You crammed...
...eight Grammy Awards whose heart-tugging ballads made him one of the most celebrated R. and B. singers of his generation; of complications arising from a massive stroke in 2003; in Edison, New Jersey. In 1981, after years backing such artists as David Bowie, Roberta Flack and Carly Simon, he released the first of 15 well-received solo albums, which included such R. and B. hits as Give Me the Reason, Here and Now and Love Won't Let Me Wait. But he longed for a chart-topping crossover, which he achieved in 2003 with the starkly intimate Dance With...