Since the only time your hair is naturally that extremely light is as a child, Marilyn and Anna Nicole are essentially infantile sex symbols. By their own hand, or that of their hairdresser, they have condemned themselves to being perceived as perpetual infants. As Monroe descended into mental illness, Jayne Mansfield, the starlet created in [...]
As the bursar of King’s College, he regularly oversaw the farming of college land, studied the finer points of livestock and attended pig sales, and he had even tried breeding.Any semblance of work was abandoned that day. He had brought along “A Memorandum on the Pig/Pig Fodder Ratio”, and he was anxious to talk about [...]
He found himself collecting first prize for a plywood-and-aluminium storage unit alongside his hero Charles Eames, who won the seating section. There was no possibility of pursuing product or interior design, although these were my main interests,” recalls Day. He considers himself largely self-taught, having soaked up what he could of new developments in America, [...]
Like others of its family (you may remember Mark Twain’s dictum in Pudd’nhead Wilson’s Calendar that “cauliflower is but cabbage with a college education”), it is the pre-eminent, durable vegetable of the winter. This has led many to approach the cabbage as if it were Carthage and must be subdued and destroyed: stuck in water, [...]
Tomorrow in the Melbourne Grand Prix, the most expensive show on earth roars into life. By the time the season ends in Japan in October, Michael Schumacher, supreme driver of his generation, could be $50 million richer. Behind him and his co-multimillionaires lies another band of men with skills equally refined, equally crucial. With or [...]
The top ranges are not cheap: a four-inch Wusthof Trident paring knife in the “Grand Prix” series costs pounds 21.95; a ten-inch cook’s knife pounds 57.Granton, the established British knife company, last year entered the race with a range called Le Chef In keeping with the name, a real chef designed them. Mark Gregory has [...]