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...then there were the problems Pei encountered with the Christian Science Center. Pei put his classically-oriented partner, Aldo Cussutta--who has since left the firm and moved upstairs from Pei's ninth floor domain at 600 Madison Ave.--as the head of the design team. Although Cussatta "quite typically began examining the potentials of this project in the broadest urban contexts," according to a March 1973 Architecture Plus article, and though the sprawling center was in perfect harmony with Pei's clients, the building's neighbors and the site's original occupants weren't too happy about leaving...
...selfish race to win special bilateral deals with the Middle East oil producers. Last week French Foreign Minister Michel Jobert toured the Middle East attempting to button down contracts that would ensure France oil for the next decade and beyond. He was followed closely by Italian Foreign Minister Aldo Moro, who jetted to Egypt, Kuwait, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Abu Dhabi to guarantee supplies for Italy. In St. Moritz, the Shah of Iran took time between ski runs to listen to oil requests from German Economics Minister Hans Friderichs and British Chancellor of the Exchequer Anthony Barber...
...Claude Lelouch, who always seems to make films (A Man and a Woman) with the same airy cheer, as if he were mailing out greeting cards. The plot is a congenial sort of caper about a gang of aging delinquents (Lino Ventura, Jacques Brel, Charles Denner, Charles Gerard, Aldo Maccione) who hire themselves out for all kinds of elaborate political thuggery. Since ideology cannot be stashed in a numbered Swiss account, it plays no part in their addled schemes, which include kidnaping a Swiss diplomat and hijacking...
...Aldo Cassidy, the pram king, is 36 years old and nice, but numb. His wife, whose frigidity extends beyond sex, calls him by nursery names. One day he meets Shamus, a wild writer and roaring boy, and Helen, Shamus' fine, warm wife. He falls in love quite innocently with the pair of them. "Gradually, with the aid of a third bottle of wine and several names supplied by Shamus," le Carre writes, "Cassidy formed a picture of this wonderful band of brothers, this few: a non-flying Battle of Britain squadron captained by Keats and supported by Byron, Pushkin...
...dawns on the reader and finally on Aldo, however, that Shamus is not only a free spirit but a not-always-beguiling bully, who clubs his genius menacingly and insists that when he swings, everybody swings. Le Carre develops the implications of this in the novel's best sections. But, perhaps wary of the complexities he has set loose, he then retreats into farce. The result is seldom less than amiable, but seldom more than that either...