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...time of recession in the publishing industry, the purchase seemed profligate. But it has already begun to pay off. A first printing of 50,000 has disappeared rapidly, and the book has already made the bestseller list. Yet all these achievements pale beside Helprin's purple aura of selfimportance...
...smoothing out to be done." Among the snags: "mini-documentaries" on organ transplants and on the decline of a Kansas City stockyard seemed more like unedited slices of life than stories with news pegs, and "video postcards" of nature scenes and Americana reinforced the show's occasional aura of untimeliness...
...century earlier had proclaimed to be academic"-modeled painting of the naked human body. The studio nude, posed, had been the very protein (or, to its detractors, the basic starch) of salon painting from Ingres to Bouguereau. It was thrust into eclipse by impressionism because it carried an aura of the posed, the stagy, the allegorical, and post-impressionism finished it off. The nude became a casualty of the means painters chose to assert their pictorial honesty: the near religious cult of flatness. The intricate bumps and hollows, bosses and knots and smooth rotundities of the bodily landscape were generalized...
...choose a traditional form of release: the violence done to oneself. Japan's suicide rate, about 15 per 100,000, is higher than that of the U.S., though lower than those of most North or East European countries. Suicide in Japan was long surrounded by a romantic and aesthetic aura that arose from the samurai tradition. Now it seems an especially unhappy and unheroic spectacle. A group called the Japan Association for the Prevention of Parent-Child Suicide has been established to try to discourage such tragedies. Some 400 occur every year. In recent weeks a man threw himself...
...main beneficiary of Mondale's slippage has been Glenn, whose amiability and hero's aura exert a quiet, steady appeal. A new TIME poll conducted by Yankelovich, Skelly and White Inc., which asked Democrats and independents their preference among the six declared candidates, shows Glenn with 26% support, drawing close to Mondale's 30% rating. This is an increase of 5 percentage points for Glenn since last March and a decrease of 8 points for Mondale. The support for the other candidates: Cranston, 6%; Hart, 3%; former Florida Governor Reubin Askew, 2%; South Carolina Senator Ernest Rollings...