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Sly Stone wrote, produced and arranged music, winning acclaim as the author of invigorating anthems and an inventor of new, more complex recording sounds / Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images

In Sly & the Family Stone’s prime, from 1968 to 1973, the band was one of music’s greatest live acts as well as a fount of remarkable singles including “Everyday People” and “Hot Fun in the Summertime.”

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Tom Robbins at his home in La Conner, Wash., in 1981. Though he was often considered a Seattle writer, he was born and raised in the South / Writer Pictures, via Associated Press

His cosmically comic novels about gargantuan-thumbed hitchhikers, stoned secret agents and mystic stockbrokers caught hold of millions of readers in the 1970s counterculture.

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One month to go until Becoming Henry Moore opens at our Studios & Gardens! Discover how Henry Moore developed from a promising schoolboy into one of the 20th century’s most successful artists in this new exhibition. Tracing Moore’s creative path through his formative years as an artist, this new exhibition features rare early works by Moore and exciting loans by artists who inspired him: including Picasso, Rodin, Rembrandt and Michelangelo. Tickets are on sale now on our website www.henry-moore.org #BecomingHenryMoore #sculpture #exhibitions (at Henry Moore Studios & Gardens)

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Lana Turner at Ciro’s, early 1940s

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Fiona Campbell-Walter

Vogue, March 1952

Horst P. Horst

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Britt Ekland by Gianni Penati 1969

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Milicent Rogers by Horst P. Horst 1949

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Lauren Bacall by John Rawlings 1945

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Jacqueline de Ribes by Mark Shaw 1959

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In Hollywood the most important look for a woman to have is the “sexy look.” The sexy dress begins just below the knee and is of a striking color and a glossy fabric. Satin, taffeta, moiré – any cloth which catches the lights and molds. Design, cut, pleats, buttons, belts – details of any kind are of no concern; it’s the outline that is underlined. The dress must cling to, sculpture, and emphasize the thighs, hips and waist, and stop at the sternum – in the front. I mean, not the back. And en route it must strain itself over an oversized bust. If the lady wearing the dress doesn’t have an oversized bust, she must buy one. Of course, when I arrived in France I found that the prevailing mode had nothing whatever to do with the look I left behind me. In fact, the sexy look had never been heard of. In France it’s assumed that if you’re a woman you are sexy, and you don’t have to put on a dress to prove it.

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Gregory Peck, 1938.

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Ann Sothern

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The Nobel Prize-winning poet Joseph Brodsky, above, wrote a travel book about Venice, called “Watermark,” published in 1992. “I would like to live my next life in Venice,” he wrote. “To be a cat there, anything, even a rat, but always in Venice.” / Bridgeman Images

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Mike Hynson in 1964 on Salt Creek Beach in Orange County, Calif. His was “one of the greatest surf lives ever lived,” Jake Howard wrote in Surfing magazine / Bob Bagley, via Bruce Brown Films, LLC

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When people talk listen completely. Don’t be thinking what you’re going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do they observe. You should be able to go into a room and when you come out know everything that you saw there and not only that. If that room gave you any feeling you should know exactly what it was that gave you that feeling.

Ernest Hemingway, Across the River and into the Trees

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“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”

— Ernest Hemingway