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MANNERISM by Jacques Bousquet...
...painting's exploration of emotionally exotic themes was paralleled in poetry and theater. To demonstrate that the flamboyant creativity of the Mannerist era is more important and more visual fun than it has usually been given credit for, Author Bousquet has brought together a wide range of art and literature. The examples are felicitous, the commentary urbane, and the format itself is wittily evocative of the Mannerist manner...
...total investment. "Without that machine we wouldn't be in business," he says. One of the most ambitious snow jobs is the result of $225,000 spent by Don Soviero, a former New York attorney, for equipment to cover 36 acres on Massachusetts' Mt. Bousquet, an area of uncertain snows. Says Soviero: "While everyone else is crying, we have never lost money,'' though his artificial snow costs...
Even the world's sharp-eyed buyers, no wasters of emotion, though they loved Dior, rose as one to give Saint-Laurent a standing ovation. "One of the great Dior collections," exulted Bergdorf Goodman's Andrew Goodman. Said astute Marie-Louise Bousquet, Harper's Bazaar's oldest Paris hand: "If the colossus of Dior had crumbled, it would have shaken French fashion to its foundations...