Vogue under Vreeland reflected the “extravagance, and luxury and excess” of the 60s, according to Vanity Fair. She was a very creative and one-of-a-kind editor who often made choices of editorial content that were considered extreme but somehow managed to bring success. “In particular, she...
He won numerous prizes, including the Award of Excellence of the Society of Writers of the UN. Important issues in his novels are a fervent pacifism as well as the relativity of good and bad. Several novels are said to have a true background, possibly autobiographic. According to his ...
He was one of the "Children of the '60s," a new wave of iconic Russian intellectuals led by the Khrushchev Thaw.Voznesensky was considered "one of the most daring writers of the Soviet era" but his style often led to regular criticism from his contemporaries and he was once threatened ...
Known as the “Master of Suspense,” Alfred Hitchcock was one of the most famous film directors of the 20th century. He directed more than 50 feature-length films from the1920sinto the1970s. Hitchcock’s image, seen during Hitchcock’s frequent cameos in his own films and before each episo...
She also participated in a radical collective of left-wing actors and writers known as October. She actively engaged in various Surrealist circles, frequently joining demonstrations, convocations, and café discussions. Dora Maar was a signatory of numerous manifestos, among them "When Surrealists were...
[单选] Whatmakes a person famous This is a mystery that many people have pondereD.All kinds of myths surround the lives ofwell—known peoplE. Mostpeople are familiar with the words of William Shakespeare,one of the greatest Eng.1ish writers of the sixteenth century.Yethow many know Shakespea...
In 1934 he opened a portrait studio in Montparnasse, where he photographed many well-known artists and writers — including André Gide, Marc Chagall, Le Corbusier, and André Malraux, using an innovative twin-lens reflex camera that he designed himself. Over the course of his career, Halsman ...
We travellers and travel writers have all become obsessed with the narrative of reinvention and hipness. Düsseldorf is not hip. You can get excellent coffee throughout the city, but no one calls it ‘artisan’ and nowhere do you sit on upturned tea chests b...
We travellers and travel writers have all become obsessed with the narrative of reinvention and hipness. Düsseldorf is not hip. You can get excellent coffee throughout the city, but no one calls it ‘artisan’ and nowhere do you sit on upturned tea chests ...
Starting off as an assistant script editor, he was promoted to head script editor of the classic BBC show after just a year, and as one of the original writers, he was once described by the Doctor Who News Page as "arguably the most prolific contributor" to the show. ...