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...iconic style magazine marks its quarter century Summits of Style Esoteric treatments in a minimalist setting A Starflyer Is Born In-flight comfort with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder When Julia Roberts dressed the part of the 1950s-era Wellesley professor with circle skirts and big brooches in Mona Lisa Smile, fashion designers took note. Now, along with '50s-style twinsets, nipped-in waists and gloves, they're bringing back the jeweled brooch. Everyone from Chanel to Tiffany to Banana Republic is cashing in on the trend. "Women haven...
...crunchy vegetarian from California swapped with a neat freak from New Jersey, got a lot of laughs. Still, you have to be anxious about a show that defines women entirely in terms of their homemaking. I mean, do we really want reality TV to drag women back to the 1950s? Oh, wait - "The Bachelor" already took care of that. Carry on, then! Meanwhile, on "The Benefactor," billionaire Mark Cuban is giving away a million dollars to the average American who can best help him achieve his humanitarian goal: stealing publicity from Donald Trump...
...there was a chance to recruit him and send him back to the field as your source, now there's no chance." Dr. Robert Jay Lifton, a visiting professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, has studied torture victims who came out of communist China in the 1950s. Under severe treatment, he found, people said what their interrogators wanted to hear. "They come up with so-called wild confessions," he says. In the 1980s the Israeli Supreme Court restricted interrogators to using "moderate physical pressure" in order to reduce the number of false confessions obtained under torture...
DIED. CLEMENT (COXSONE) DODD, 72, pioneering producer who helped define ska and reggae and popularize Jamaican music throughout the world; in Kingston, Jamaica. In the 1950s he operated some of the most popular "sound systems"--makeshift turntable and speaker sets that played dance records for partygoers--which helped lay the foundation for hip-hop and DJ culture. He launched several record labels, signing the legendary Bob Marley and the Wailers...
...creations as they weave their way through the crowd: the Sydney-based designer has been perfecting his bowerbird brand of beauty since first showing solo at Australian Fashion Week in 1998. What is surprising is that 81-year-old Max Whitehead, the original "Chesty Bonds" singlet model of the 1950s, garners the most applause, and that the star of the evening is menswear...