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...airpower save Saigon's army from disaster on the ground? U.S. military advisers in Saigon insist that it has already done so. Without lavish air support, they say, the embattled cities of An Loc and Quang Tri might have fallen to the Communists long ago. In fact, the Americans believe that the North Vietnamese blundered by underestimating the amount of airpower that the U.S. could and would bring to bear on the offensive...
Vivid Warning. Yet when Maurits Escher died last month, aged 73, a cult had begun to gather round him. Through many channels, from head-shop posters to science magazines, Escher had been insinuated into world currency. A lavish book, The Complete World of M.C. Escher, will shortly be published by Abrams. This week an almost complete exhibition of his graphics opens at the Vorpal Gallery in San Francisco, where the prints Escher sold for $ 17 to $40 two decades ago are being offered...
...Daily, the brash and breezy tabloid trade paper, last week acquired a new standard-newspaper-size sibling called W, a fortnightly that Publisher John Fairchild says is aimed at "an audience of intellectually affluent women in the U.S. and abroad." Priced at 50?, or $7.50 a year, W contains lavish color illustrations and a collage of fashion and gossip dedicated to what the beautiful people of both sexes are saying, wearing and doing. The first issue, well seeded with ads, went to 70,000 charter subscribers, and Editor Michael Coady sees circulation rising to 250,000 as "we start...
...NAME OF ALAIN RESNAIS, for students of modern film, brings to mind a host of intense and often bewildering experiences: a pursuit through the lavish and sterile baroque corridors of Marienbad, where men are frozen and statues take on life; the impossible embrace, across space and time, of Hiroshima and Nevers, France; the horrifying images of Nazi concentration camps, piercing the "night and fog" of our forgetfulness...
Libya's Colonel Muammar Gaddafi is lavish with both words and money. Last week he took five hours-quite a stretch for Arabs who love prolix oratory-to extol pan-Arabism. Arab states, he insisted, do not need "Communism, fascism, foreign capitalism or liberalism." Instead, they are capable of forming a united force that could easily become the third great world power. One step toward this goal, Gaddafi said, would be to overthrow King Hussein of Jordan and King Hassan of Morocco, just as he and fellow officers 21 years ago toppled Libya's King Idris. Radio Cairo...