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...lacquered surface, Shadows in Paradise shows all the familiar Remarque gloss. There is the typically commercial title, second only to Heaven Has No Favorites. There is the often wordy dialogue- pretentiously sophisticated, as if spoken by an impostor duke. There is the slightly too chic setting: in this case, places like El Morocco, the fashion-and-art sa lons of New York and the swimming pools of Hollywood...
Peanuts cocktail napkins lie forgotten in pantry drawers, and Beethoven's face glares up from abandoned Schroeder sweatshirts in musty Goodwill Stores. Charlie Brown calendars are replaced on bedroom walls by Sierra Club gloss, or Playboy Mag. glamour. "Snoopy and the Red Baron" is by now a tarnished golden oldie...
Blocks and Dabs. Art needs stamina to survive that kind of diffusion. Mondrian survived triumphantly, though at some cost. The characteristics of industrial reproduction-flatness, harshness, gloss and repetition-became wrongly linked to his work. The idea that Mondrian was a kind of machine painter, all sensuousness barred, is one of the many illusions that the Guggenheim's exhibition will dispel...
...team?" Since then Jones has returned to his university post. Even Paul McCracken, the President's chief economist, was taken to task by men in the White House when he conceded in June that the recovery was not rapidly reducing unemployment. (Because he usually managed to gloss over even grim statistics, McCracken became known to newsmen as "Dr. McQualify," and his No. 2 man, Herbert Stein, was dubbed "Mr. All Fine...
...Viet Nam study, and are currently at work on books. Working separately, the two arrived at similar conclusions on bureaucratic breakdowns. Part of the answer, they suggest, lies in the "rules of the game" by which all Washington bureaucrats traditionally play. Some of these rules and their gloss...