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...Saarinen made people go downstairs, from the fourth-floor main entrance at one end of the building, to the executive offices. Secretaries, instead of being tucked away in dark inner cubicles, were given window seats. Treetops wave just outside the horizontal steel louvers, which will eventually rust to a cinnamon dark ness. Every office has its own thermostat, and the whole building has push button telephones...
...than the title attempts to suggest. The principal character, whose name and nature are distinctly insulting to the present manager of the New York Yankees, is a chubby and badly drawn bruin who looked reasonably ursine on TV but on the giant screen resembles an enormous and rather soggy cinnamon cookie. He lives in Jellystone National Park but talks like a bear from the Bronx Zoo. "Duh," he announces, "I'm smahtuh dan de avidge bayuh." To prove it he assembles a battalion of "trained picnic ants" and sends them to steal chocolate cakes from tourists. Then he runs...
Amado Gabriella--Clove and Cinnamon...
Still another girl said she would eat anything once she started on a compulsive binge, with dry bread, lumps of sugar, and whole cinnamon sticks doing very nicely if nothing else was around...
GABRIELA, CLOVE AND CINNAMON (425 pp.)-Jorge Amado-Knopf...