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...back." The ethereal looking creatures that stepped gingerly across the graveled path of the St. Cloud gardens Tuesday, where Chanel showed under a cloud of rain, were indeed dreamlike. They had tweed hoods to match their boxy tweed suits and over-the-knee leather boots to add a futuristic touch - not to mention a little shelter from the storm here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dreamy Couture in Paris | 7/3/2007 | See Source »

Toward the end of World War II, a little German boy named Dieter Dengler looked out a second-story window of his house in the Black Forest and saw an American fighter plane skim past him, almost close enough to touch. Its cockpit canopy was open and the child could see the face of the hot young pilot, thrilled by his stunt. From that moment on, Dengler was determined to become a flyer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fact to Fiction for Rescue Dawn | 7/3/2007 | See Source »

That was The Pursuit of Happiness, a sweeping love story set in postwar New York City. It was more a romance than a thriller, and no U.S. publisher would touch it. "Then two things happened," says Kennedy. "First, I began to have success in Europe. Second, doors closed in New York." The novel thrived overseas, selling 350,000 copies in the U.K. alone. But to American publishers Kennedy was a loser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lost in America | 7/3/2007 | See Source »

...recognize the Reiss touch from both The Simpsons and The Critic: constant sidesteps into movie and TV burlesques, and a very high ratio of good humor to bad. But if Queer Duck has a godfather or bachelor uncle, it would have to be the classic old Rocky and Bullwinkle show (or, as it's called in a gay TV-porn collection Queer Duck owns, Rockhard & Bullsprinkle). And since that was the smartest pre-Simpsons cartoon series, I mean this as high praise indeed. For all its bitchiness, the movie manages to be frisky and genial. One last odd fact: Reiss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rats! Poo! Duck! | 6/30/2007 | See Source »

...tried to touch most of the bases this year in the College," Gross told The Crimson in 2004. "But I realized that I had to hire someone to help me divide this job—it's just too much...

Author: By Brittney L. Moraski, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: With Goals Accomplished, Gross Leaves Overhauled College | 6/29/2007 | See Source »

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