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...three women from Tulsa look like teen-agers but are actually in their 30s and mothers of three children each. Marilynn, a wife-mother-student, is ecstatic to be here alone: "I've never had a room of my own before." The mother and daughter with matching sulks are inveterate spa-hoppers. They are accustomed to the "pamper places," where guests are practically carried to exercise class, and they find life at Canyon Ranch irritatingly spartan. They are especially cross about being asked to think. "We have to choose our own classes here," whines one. The quiet blond...
...defined by Canadian Critic Lawrence O'Toole, it includes a taste for grand romantic gestures, excesses of "spirit, personality and desire" and "a refusal to apologize for outlandish behavior." This spirit, O'Toole argues, informed the mannered and stylized American comedies, musicals and romances of the '30s and '40s, many of which are now considered classics. These days he finds it notably lacking. Of the current crop, Victor/ Victoria perhaps aspires to some of it, though the musical numbers unfortunately miss the oldtime zip and fizz...
...shortcut the hard-cover publishers with their own original titles. Jerzy Kosinski's just published Pinball is appearing as a Bantam Papa (5,000), Mama (150,000), with babies yet to be determined. Says Stuart Applebaum, director of publicity for Bantam: "For many people in their 20s and 30s, the quality trade paperback has become their hardback." Literary Agent Scott Meredith sees the flagging economy as the reason. Says he: "Few people today can walk into a store and casually buy ten books." Industry experts predict that by 1990 more than half of all books will originate in soft...
...sectarian myth. And maybe, more to the point, a somewhat larger number of"60s types who glorified a bit too strenuously the virtues of Fidel and Ho and Mao Sontag belongs, more or less, in both categories; she was born into the Manhattan neo-Stalinist school of the '30s and '40s (though she was never a supporter) and in the '60s revived her interest in Matters political to take an active part in the antiwar movement. She made the ritual pilgrimage to Hanoi in 1968, and, in a long, moving essay upon her return wrote the following: "When love enters...
...never went beyond its prototypes. The Dutch did not want to live in such houses or sit in such chairs. Manufacturers did not want to make them. Finally, the belief in progress and human enlightenment, on which De Stijl depended, encountered the brutal history that came in the '30s and '40s. And so, at this far remove, De Stijl retains its fascination as one of the subtlest tissues of Utopian ideas in the history of Western culture. But it is a vision that is proper to museums, and to art; we know that it cannot come true...