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...York City's Guggenheim Foundation by day, she would rush home each night to fix dinner. American supermarkets shocked her: "The food was dead, wrapped in plastic coffins." She became a professional cook by accident in 1969, when friends in a Chinese cooking class asked for Italian recipes. (Her fame was sealed by Claiborne, who came to lunch one day and went home raving...
Named after Vogue magazine, the underground craze now seems posed -- er, ! poised -- to break into the mainstream for its 15 minutes of fame. Fashion designer Thierry Mugler imported two voguers from New York to camp it up on the runway at his recent Paris show, and teens are getting glimpses of vogueing in a music video playing on MTV, singer Taylor Dayne's Tell It to My Heart. The craze has already spread to Chicago. Predicts New York City video producer David Bronstein: "I see a lot of choreographers who could be influenced. I see a big crossover there...
...malapropisms -- calling the French painter "Toujours Lautrec," asking some fellow schemers to "include me out" of a deal -- gained Samuel Goldwyn a perverse fame as the archetypal Hollywood immigrant mogul, crude and semiliterate. But as A. Scott Berg demonstrates in this readable, richly researched biography, Goldwyn was never an archetypal anything, except in his poor Jewish origins in Eastern Europe. Unlike the Mayers and Warners, he made relatively few films, and he never built a mighty empire with a huge star roster and an immense distribution network. He was the ultimate independent producer, with a compulsive need for autonomy...
...spring meeting of the American Physical Society is normally a cool scientific congregation, but last week's gathering of 1,500 physicists in Baltimore was more like an unusually hot celebrity roast. This elite clan convened a special panel to comment on the instant fame of Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann, two chemists who had dared to venture from their field into the private domain of nuclear physicists. Less than six weeks earlier, Pons, of the University of Utah, and Fleischmann, of Britain's University of Southampton, claimed to have achieved nuclear fusion, the process that powers...
After the war and the deluge of his fame, Lawrence stunned friends by changing his identity and going underground. As John Hume Ross, he enlisted in the Royal Air Force. When his cover was blown by a London newspaper ('UNCROWNED KING' AS PRIVATE SOLDIER), Lawrence was forced out of the R.A.F. and subsequently enrolled in the army as T.E. Shaw. In a letter written soon after this move, he noted his divided state of mind and suggested that "perhaps there's a solution to be found in multiple personality...