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...June, according to a U.N. report last week. July has been worse, with a series of Sunni-vs.-Shi'ite assaults that have each left dozens dead. One of the bloodiest: 53 people died in Kufa last week when a man in a van enticed Shi'ite day laborers with the promise of work, then blew up his vehicle as they approached...
...speak." Actually, it's more like someone's saying, "That's not much of a cat you got," and Mike pulls the guy's guts through his nose. In Spillane, nearly every charged conversation between males escalates pronto into a fight. Hammer hits first. And, as J. Kenneth Van Dover notes in his astute, fairly critical Murder in the Millions (about Gardner, Hammett and Fleming), Hammer's pugilistic repertoire relies as much on his knees and his feet as on his fists. That's sensible, since the hand is more vulnerable to breaking. But it's also, in the Marquis...
When Belgian fashion first strutted onto the international catwalks in the early '80s, Antwerp took the credit - and rightly so. It was graduates of that city's fashion school - Dries van Noten, Ann Demeulemeester, Walder van Beirendonck, Dirk van Saene, Dirk Bikkembergs and Marina Yee, a.k.a. the[an error occurred while processing this directive] Antwerp Six - who were forging a distinctive deconstructionist style, a world away from Belgium's moules-frites-and-cherry-beer reputation...
DIED. June Allyson, 88, wholesome, gravel-voiced actress dubbed the "girl next door" for her frequent turns in the '40s and '50s as the loyal, adoring girlfriend or wife in such films as Two Girls and a Sailor, with Van Johnson, and The Glenn Miller Story, opposite Jimmy Stewart; in Ojai, Calif. Allyson was upbeat about her Hollywood reputation, but it doomed her efforts to take on grittier roles. The Shrike (1955), in which she played a harsh wife who drives her husband mad, was a flop. But she claimed she couldn't live up to the hype. "In real...
...DIED. June Allyson, 88, wholesome, gravel-voiced actress dubbed the "girl next door" for her frequent turns in the '40s and '50s as the loyal, adoring girlfriend or wife in such films as Two Girls and a Sailor, with Van Johnson, and The Glenn Miller Story, opposite Jimmy Stewart; in Ojai, California. Allyson was upbeat about her Hollywood reputation, but it doomed her efforts to take on grittier roles-1955's The Shrike, in which she played a harsh wife who drives her husband to a nervous breakdown, was a flop. She once claimed she couldn't live...