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There were solid underpinnings for the bullishness. Earlier in the week Chrysler completed the sale of Airtemp to Fedders Corp. Long a drag on profits, Airtemp had run up losses of about $35 million since 1971. The sale was the second coup pulled off by Riccardo and his deputy, President Eugene Cafiero. Last fall they threatened to close Chrysler's beleaguered British subsidiary and add to Britain's grim unemployment picture. Prime Minister Harold Wilson angrily complained that his government had "a pistol at its head." But he eventually came up with $325 million to rescue the subsidiary...
Parcel by parcel, Portman went on to buy a rundown section of Atlanta's main drag, Peachtree Street. Visions of towers danced in his head. One by one they rose to form Peachtree Center-a complex of five office buildings, two hotels, a theater, restaurants and a shopping arcade. Atlantans who visit Portman's hilltop house now joke that he installed a picture window and then built the view to be seen through...
...dazzling volume of verse called Personae (Masks) abruptly forced serious consideration of the upstart's mission: to drag poetry out of the 19th century and into the 20th. Poetry, Pound insisted, must have the virtues of good prose. "No book words, no straddled adjectives ('addled mosses dank'), no Tennysonianness . . . nothing you couldn't. in the stress of some emotion, actually...
...other women characters in the play are men--not only describes one kind of laugh offered in Tots but goes a long way toward explaining the musical comedy's existence to begin with. It seems that even some grown men--strange or not--feel the urge to dress in drag, high kick in hairy-legged chorus lines, and take part in explicit sexism and suppressed homoeroticism...
Intimates who know him off-tube insist that Vidal's public image as a Cassandra in drag is a mask protecting a sensitive, even self-sacrificial ally. Actress Claire Bloom recalls the time last year when he interrupted the writing of 1876 to accompany her on a twelve-day trip to Greece. Depressed by a broken marriage and a role in a play that folded out of New York, she found Vidal a consoling companion, showing her local sights she had not seen before. Later, he dedicated 1876 to her. "I know he likes to give the impression that...