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...Gainsbourg doesn't have a straight answer, but she says the graphic scenes didn't faze her. "I felt more naked crying and howling than I did showing my bottom," she explains. Then again, her father did give her an early education in provocation. His infamous 1969 duet with Birkin, "Je T'Aime ... Moi Non Plus," was banned by the Vatican because of its salacious lyrics and feigned orgasms. And in 1984, he recorded "Lemon Incest," a duet in which he and a 13-year-old Charlotte sing that "the love that we will never make together is the most...
...Modernist by birthright. His father Eliel was a Finnish architect whose radically clean-lined entry in the 1922 competition to design the Chicago Tribune Tower took second place in the contest but first place in history. For a rising generation of architects, that unbuilt proposal was an arrow pointing straight to the future and a strong influence on the Empire State Building and Rockefeller Center. The fame it brought the elder Saarinen in the U.S. persuaded him to emigrate the following year from Finland to Chicago. A few months later, his wife and children, including his precocious 12-year...
...would be shamed into spending less. Could there be a practical use for the exhibitionism and groupthink of social networking? Location-centric sites like Foursquare encourage people to blast where they are and what they're buying. But Blippy takes things to a new level, since information goes straight from point of purchase to website. You don't have to push a single button; just agree to let Blippy broadcast the details that end up on your credit-card statement. Marketers are constantly mining all sorts of consumer data, and Blippy - which has received seed money from big-name investors...
...impressive effort, though, may have come from Wilson. The second-year runner has put his versatility on display this season, surpassing ECAC marks in the 1000-meter, 800-meter, and mile runs. This weekend featured the mile for Wilson, and he did not hesitate to produce for a third straight week, taking 17th overall...
...pressure of four straight road games...