Friday, March 9, 2007
Juxtapositions
Apparently March 9th is an unusual day. With its confluence of stars and other things it is the birth date of moody, adventurous and creative non-conformists: the wild chessman Bobby Fischer, the extravagant astronaut Yuri Gagarin, the extraordinary storyteller Mickey Spillane and the painter/writer and personna Vita Sackville-West, as well as map-maker Vespucci, composers Mussorgsky 250 years ago and Samuel Barber 100 years ago (both reviled for their modernism), designer André Courreges who invented the mini-skirt, singer Keely Smith who was like no one before or since, and the one and only Barbie doll.
Labels: anniversaries, juxtapositions
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