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Hard to argue that civilization is in tip-top shape, and Elmore Leonard isn't in the mood to try. In Pronto (Delacorte; 265 pages) it's the Mob that has gone mushy. Harry Arno, a South Florida bookie, has reached what would be retirement age if you retired from the kind of business associations he has made, which you don't. But he does. He has been skimming the Mob's share of the take for years, and he has used the boodle to buy a villa in Rapallo, Italy, where he was stationed during World...
...Anyway, Arno is pursued ineptly by the Florida Mob and its bumbling parent organization in Italy, and also by his mistress Joyce and a U.S. marshal named Raylan Givens. Arno, who's 66, is thinking of trading in Joyce, who's about 40, for a younger tootsie, although maybe not; she still looks pretty good, and he hasn't decided. Straight-shooting Raylan's determined to find Arno, save Joyce from peril and foil the evildoers, and by page 256, it all works out. Always has in Leonard's quirky tales; always will...
...distant future will be able to enjoy sex over the telephone. First they will slip into undergarments lined with sensors and miniature actuators. Then they will dial their partner and, while whispering endearments, fondle each other over long-distance lines. For those who prefer something tamer, Nobel physicist Arno Penzias believes that in the 21st century it will be possible to play Ping-Pong (or any other sport) with phantasms that look and talk like the celebrity of your choice. And that's just the beginning. Someday, says visionary engineer K. Eric Drexler, molecular-size machines will be able...
Ferragamo's series of delicate "invisible" shoes (1945-47), which used pieces of clear nylon to create the top piece known as the vamp, were inspired by his observation of the taut, translucent lines of fishermen along the Arno River. The swooping heel of these shoes is also nautical, shaped like the keel of an America's Cup yacht. "The toes," he once said, "should always be free to swim...
...stood behind them: the creeping Jew, the scheming Bolshevik, the Negro with his thick lips and saxophone, the slavering pervert. In here it was all David and the Apollo Belvedere, noble simplicity and calm grandeur as $ interpreted by such heirs of Michelangelo and Polyclitus as Hitler's favorite sculptor Arno Breker and his court painter Adolf Ziegler. What kind of Germany, the two shows asked, do you want...