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...Gertsch, 38, felt what he thought was a cramp starting after seven miles. But he was determined to finish, and so he pounded on for 19 more miles before collapsing at the finish line. Doctors, who later set his right femur with a steel rod, theorized that his powerful thigh muscle had acted as a splint until he finally relaxed at race...
...fashion magazines," says Pinky, who was recently in Milan showing off a collection at a small hotel whose proprietor clears the entire premises when the two women move in. Their new line for fall features short skirts, knitted sweater dresses with hefty shoulders tapering down to a mid-thigh hemline, and Irish tweed overcoats that look like a Black and Tan fantasy. "We still do avant-garde clothes," Pinky says, "avantgarde and expensive, but we use lots of discipline in the men's things." Examples: silk shirts with small collars, suede as lively as dyed denim and a baseball...
...skirt was given the imprimatur of couture by Parisian Designer André Courrèges in the middle '60s. The mini's bon voyage across the Atlantic was largely the work of Enfant Terrible Rudi Gernreich, who was not only the first U.S. designer to bare the thigh, but also earned dubious fame with his topless swimsuit, the No-Bra bra and the see-through nylon blouse. By contrast with such outré expressions, the mini, if not the micromini, seemed positively respectable. Its social acceptance was assured when Jacqueline Kennedy surrendered to the new fashion...
...meter runs, the Harvard harriers should remain unbeaten despite several key injuries and absences; freshman phenom Kate Wiley will be in British Columbia this week-end trying out for Canada's national team, and senior Kristin Linsley has a sore thigh muscle but will probably still compete...
...shape. It is Diebenkorn's way of breaking up the remote geometry of the Ocean Parks; one no longer sees a distant "view" of a whole terrain, but moves closer, toward this lobed and writhing emblem which suggests either body or still life: the curves of a thigh, a buttock or a breast, the petals of a flower rising on its stalk, or-in some of the drawings-the black propped lid of a grand piano. The body image is confirmed particularly in a work like Untitled #45, which is haunted by the swollen, vegetative forms of 1930s Picasso...