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...Rincon, Puerto Rico. From her cotton proto-jumpsuit fashioned for riveting Rosies during World War II to 1974's "Speed Suit"-a zipperless, buttonless dress that could be pulled on in seconds-Maxwell pioneered sportswear for women that was as comfortable as it was chic, earning herself the sobriquet "the American Chanel." Maxwell's sources of inspiration were marvelously eclectic: a 1935 visit with Albert Einstein was said to have prompted her to copy his tweed jacket and add two skirts, a pair of pants and an extra jacket to create her classic "Weekend Wardrobe...
...newly arrived U.S. troops. Once there, they could not resist the exhilarating urge to shout their joy at the imminent return of the man whose name could not be spoken and whose picture could not be displayed for the past three years. "Vive Titid!" they cried, invoking their affectionate sobriquet for exiled President Jean- Bertrand Aristide. "Down with Cedras!" Suddenly, two Haitian army officers appeared, dragging a skinny young man who was moaning pitifully. His face was bloody. His feet were bare. His pants had nearly been ripped...
BUZZ ALDRIN bravely wrote about his post-moonwalk nervous breakdown in a 1973 memoir, Return to Earth. He is head of Starcraft Enterprise, a California firm that promotes his ideas for reinvigorating the space program -- some of them outlandish enough to have earned him the sobriquet "the Nutty Professor" in the halls of his ex-employers at NASA...
Oswald is made a dizzying blend of soldierly submission and insolent sneer, animal cunning and dimwit suckerdom by Alexis Arquette, a film actor (Last Exit to Brooklyn, Threesome) and sometime drag performer under the sobriquet Eva Destruction. In the most jarring scene, he is half-seduced, half-raped by David Ferrie, a fey father figure and apparent conspirator. Ferrie, whom Malkovich has said he would have liked to play if he were not directing, is a tour de force for Laurie Metcalf in a far cry from her Emmy-winning role as the title character's sister...
...interspersal of French and English gives his otherwise conventional songs a welcome folksy international flavor. Adjaffi emigrated from his native Haiti in 1978 to escape political turmoil. The self-proclaimed "International Singer/Songwriter," who spent several years in Belgium, Germany and France, certainly lives up to his sobriquet...