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...quest for authenticity, Schwab is uncompromising in his attack on shallow Oriental exoticism. He reveals his anti-aesthetic bias against the French Romantics, toward whom his brilliant criticism is considerably less kind. He denounces their tendency toward "formal creation." The chapter, "An Extended Orient: Exoticism" criticizes at length the borrowing of imagery by the French as sheer indulgence. Gautier's Avatar is dismissed as the work of an exploitive dilettante with a "strikingly apparent gift for painting generalized pictures." Similarly, Hugo's Orientales is dismissed as "meager picturesque Orient imposed upon Montparnasse landscape...
...metal sculpture of a Mustang hangs over Iacocca's desk at Chrysler, and a 1964 Mustang convertible, a gift from his wife in 1981, sits in his garage in suburban Detroit. "I'm generally seen as the father of the Mustang," he says in his book's 17-page chapter devoted to the car, "although, as with any success, there were plenty of people willing to take the credit." Ford's design director at the time, Gene Bordinat, has been galled ever since by Iacocca's putative paternity. "The model was totally completed by the time Lee saw it," says...
...unveiled, the company denied that such a product existed. Now some IBM executives may wish those denials had been true. The corporation announced last week that it is stopping production of the PCjr. The withdrawal of the computer giant from the home market marks a rare and embarrassing chapter of failure in IBM's long record of industry dominance...
...took Marjorie Morningstar some 400 pages to lose her virginity. Davey Goodkind needs 500 and a chapter titled "Consummation." There is a touch of self-mockery in this, though Goodkind's long-windedness leaves little doubt of his underlying self-importance. He appears modest about his role in Government but leaves the impression that he was decisive in securing U.S. aid for Israel during the October War. His on-again-off-again affair with a Gentile show girl is elevated to a grand romantic passion when all the evidence suggests that our hero was merely having a good time before...
...short of it is that we are starting a new chapter in superpower relations, and the twists and turns that lie ahead are for the most part utterly unknown. More than ever the reaction of one man to another will set the mood of this anxious world. That chemistry is not fathomed yet even by the two men themselves. Still scary, but still true...