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...reality is somewhat less dramatic. Piaf was actually born in Paris' Tenon Hospital, according to her biographer, Jean-Dominique Brierre. She grew up poor but was never blind, though she did have an inflamed cornea that was cured by ordinary medical treatment. She was also cleared of any involvement in Leplée's death. "Piaf didn't invent these myths," says Brierre, "but she knew it wouldn't harm her image to let certain rumors lie. With the facts skewed, her life was like a character in a novel - a romantic novel full of mythical relationships. I think this...
...four years later, they feel his ice-breaking antic set the tone for their time together.They describe Norberg as amazingly caring, funny, and passionate—but he isn’t crazy. And the grade-school comment is not without merit. That day Norberg did, in fact, feel somewhat like a first grader. Having been homeschooled from second grade until college, that kindergarten diploma was the last one he had ever received. Weeks later, as Weld 52 settled in to freshman year, Norberg would find the transition difficult. Like his fellow freshmen, he struggled to adjust to college life...
...Shaped somewhat like a very large bean?an organic form that has turned up more than once in Future Systems designs?the store gave the jumble of downtown Birmingham a glamorous new focal point. For one thing, it's pillowy. Not a word you typically get to use when describing a building; but Future Systems doesn't make typical buildings. And its mostly windowless exterior is covered by 15,000 anodized aluminum disks packed in rows against a field of stucco painted "Yves Klein blue," the dark blue patented by the French artist. Depending on how you think about...
...this somewhat simplifies architectural history. The curving line survived as a kind of subdepartment of Modernism. It flowed through the work of the great Finnish architect Alvar Aalto, spiraled up the ramp of Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Museum, filled the sails of the Sydney Opera House and even ballooned into the later work of Le Corbusier, the Ur-modernist himself. "It never went entirely away," Kaplicky insists, and he's right. But on the whole, and for a long time, it was straight lines that carried more authority. For decades contours endured a kind of underground existence. Anything...
...Federal Reserve Bank, has helped drive equities higher with his upbeat views on the economy. In his semiannual congressional testimony last week, the Fed chairman laid out a rosy scenario, predicting that U.S. growth would continue "at a moderate pace this year and next, with growth strengthening somewhat as the drag from housing diminishes...