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Since opening his own house a year ago, the designer has conquered the field with his sexy, theatrical creations and restored the magic to couture. Following his triumphant costuming of American Ballet Theater' s Gaite Parisienne, Lacroix has good news for women who wish they could afford his outfits: a ready- to- wear line is due in March...
...announcement last week that he had acquired an 18.6% share (market value: more than $300 million) largely through his Paris-based holding company, Cerus, prompted hurrahs in Italy's financial community. "It was a brilliant operation, a theatrical coup," said Fiat Chairman Giovanni Agnelli, and Italian newspapers bannered triumphant headlines like DE BENEDETTI, KING OF BELGIUM. But the cross-border bid stirred far noisier wails of protest across Belgium. "Financial piracy!" declared La Generale's chief, Rene Lamy. GENERALE UNDER THE ITALIAN BOOT, screamed a headline...
...with victories in the 200 and 400-m events, while also running in the triumphant 4x400-m relay team. Her time of 55.25 seconds in the 400-m set a new field-house record...
Nineteen sixty-eight was a knife blade that severed past from future, Then from Now: the Then of triumphant postwar American power in the world, the Then of the nation's illusions of innocence and virtue, from the more complicated Now that began when the U.S. saw that it was losing a war it should not have been fighting in the first place, when the huge tribe of the young revolted against the nation's elders and authority, and when the nation finished killing its heroes. The old Then meant an American exceptionalism, the divine dispensation that the nation thought...
Like a knife blade, the year of riot and revolution severed the U. S. from its triumphant optimism, exposing a confused, divided country that was fighting a war it could not win. The dramas of 1968 shaped the world we know today: heroes were gunned down, the Soviets trampled Prague' s spring, Richard Nixon was elected, and man for the first time orbited the moon. See NATION...