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...Brisk and impatient as always, Prime Minister Francisco Sá Carneiro arrived at Lisbon airport last week anxious to fly off to Oporto. There, with national elections scheduled for Sunday, he planned to deliver a final hortatory salvo to promote his presidential candidate-but no relation-General António Soares Carneiro. With the Prime Minister, in the twin-engine Cessna C-421, were his longtime companion, Danish-born Snu Abecassis; Defense Minister Adeline Amaro da Costa and his wife; Cabinet Chief António Patricio Gouveia and two pilots. Almost immediately after takeoff, the plane lost altitude. It sheered...
Business is also booming for carriage trade retailers like Neiman-Marcus of Dallas and Saks Fifth Avenue. For weeks, their branches have been brisk with crowds of well-heeled shoppers. In Bloomingdale's flagship store in Manhattan, free-spending shoppers are readily paying $545 for Burberry trench coats or $1,000 for life-size hand-carved replicas of China's eight immortal mandarins. At the Younkers department store in Omaha, one customer recently bought seven Yves Saint Laurent blouses as gifts for $400 each...
...issue woman of writing Vogue in a began by recent circling her subject - marriage - like an anthropologist studying some tribal fetish stumbled upon in a clearing in New Guinea, seven days' march from civilization. The author, Lyn Davis Genelli, analyzed the oddity with brisk dogmatic scholarship: "[Marriage] can be seen as an irrelevant residue of an outworn patriarchal society...
...Avant-Garde Art 1914-1939, (Skira-Rizzoli; 223 pages; $85) is a sequel to the author's Modern Art 1884-1914: The Decisive Years. The new work's 75 color reproductions and 270 black-and-white pictures have been chosen to illustrate Daval's brisk chronological text. By dividing his subject into 89 bite-size chapters, he is able to draw fine distinctions among the numerous unruly schools that flourished during those fertile 25 years when such men as Matisse, Picasso, Duchamp, Mird, Dali, Walter Gropius and Frank Lloyd Wright changed the look and perception...
Good Morning America, on the other hand, is like an afternoon tabloid, more frivolous but also less pretentious. The basic set is a mock suburban home, with a cozy living room and a working kitchen (for Pinkham and Child). If Brokaw is as brisk as a barrister, the easygoing Hartman, 45, is as relaxed as the family doctor, someone whom you would not mind telling about all those aches and pains. He also has a female subaltern, Joan Lunden, 30, a wholesome-looking type who is given little scope on the show, perhaps wisely. Her style of interviewing...