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...course, part of it was that the timing was right to restore. People were interested in it." The checks are now vaunted on ball gowns, bikinis and stilettos. There are fragrance and children's lines and sexy ad campaigns featuring chic Brits Kate Moss and Stella Tennant. The iconic trench coat, first designed in 1901 by Thomas Burberry as an army officer's raincoat, today comes in a panoply of styles, colors and prints, including this season's floral...
...shallow irrigation trench winds away from the women splashing in the spray of a newly dug well, cuts through a patch of tall grass and curves past the spot where John Makur Agok tends to his peace dividends: a fragile array of seedlings swaddled in black plastic, a future of lemons, oranges, mangoes, papayas and dates. "What shows that I've resettled," says the rangy 43-year-old farmer, "is that I'm planting all these trees - and there's nothing to disturb them." For two decades, the people in Agok's village of Mayenwal have lived a life...
...from the Cold, published in 1963, was a sensation. Set among low-level intelligence operators in the chilly mists of divided Berlin, it lifted the curtain on a secret war fought in silence not by chiseled movie heroes in tuxedos but by paunchy, bitter men in ill-fitting trench coats, real human beings who loved and suffered and doubted and died in an atmosphere of profound moral ambiguity. They were James Bond come unbound...
Within seconds it was apparent that the band was going in a different direction from They Threw Us All in a Trench. They opened with the sprawling lead track from They Were So Wrong, “Broken Witch,” exchanging guitar from Hemphill with drum fills, as Andrew croaked a sullen chant: “I, I am the boy; she, she is the girl; he, he is the bear. We, we, we…”—a seeming parody of simple rock lyrics that perfectly parallels the song?...
...Place on November 30. Showcasing their soon-to-be released sophomore LP, They Were Wrong So We Drowned, the Liars descended deeper into experimental rock without fully leaving behind the Gang of Four aesthetic that won them such cred with their debut, They Threw Us All in a Trench and Put a Monument...