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Proper attire, especially when it comes to more formal occasions and defined through decades, if not centuries, has been taking some big-time hits lately.

It was possible once to make a living as a working actor, striking SAG-AFTRA members say. But now, “things have been fucked up for way too long.”

Thousands of programming languages were invented in the first 50 years of the age of computing. Many of them were similar, and many followed a traditional, evolutionary path from their predecessors. What eventually became APL was first a mathematical notation, not as a computer programming language.

This article is part of a monthly series celebration Kittery’s history, as Maine’s oldest town counts down to its 375th birthday

The only member of his family to attend university, Phil studied and graduated in architecture at UNSW. He traveled to Europe, worked briefly on the Barbican, but returned to Sydney when his father was ill, taking over his joinery shop. Phil married Freda, a designer, and belatedly started professional life in his early thirties. For the next 40 years he mostly practiced with only one assistant, and for over half that time it was the dedicated and highly talented Anna Bowen-James.