THE NATIONAL TREASURE

It takes something special to become known by the definite article. Frank Sinatra, a flawed human being but the interpreter nonpareil of the Great American Songbook, was known as The Voice. His dulcet-ness encompassed the brittle dreams, secret longings and guarded sentimentality of a generation. Probably two.

Evincing not-so-secret longings was another ‘The’. In 1988, Time magazine christened the Australian model Elle Macpherson ‘The Body’. And with good reason: she is the only person to make the cover of Sports Illustrated’s vaunted swimsuit issue five times.

In an era long before Victoria’s Secret Angels