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...Bangkok said that China had launched a series of air strikes against military depots near Haiphong, where Soviet ships were unloading supplies. Officials in Peking and Washington discredited the report within hours, but not before it had hit front pages around the world and had thus been woven whole cloth into the war's tapestry of mystification and misinformation...
...economic mission, was a sentimental journey for Blumenthal. He lived in Shanghai as a refugee from Nazi Germany from 1939 to 1947, much of the time inside the European ghetto, twelve blocks long by five blocks wide, where his father was unable to find work and his mother sold cloth to dressmakers. "It was like the wild West, except that it was East. There were dog races, horse races, gangsters, pimps and whores. Americans were all but immune from the law. It was a cosmopolitan place, where you could buy and sell anything if you had the money." Blumenthal lived...
...level, Magritte's art produced some of the most disturbing images of alienation and fear in the lexicon of modern art. There is no more chilling icon of the failures of sexual communication than The Lovers, 1928, with two anonymous (but inescapably similar) heads kissing through their gray cloth integuments. Nor are there many paintings that sum up the pathos of fetishism-the substitution of a symbolic part for the desired whole-more acutely than In Memoriam Mack Sennett, 1936, in which a woman's negligee, hanging on its own in a closet, has developed a forlornly luminous...
...unabashed pursuit of money. As the pace picks up, the shouts of jostling men rise like the roar of the crowd at Churchill Downs when it's neck and neck in the home stretch of the Kentucky Derby. The participants are dressed like stockroom clerks in brightly colored cloth jackets, and they are flashing elaborate hand signals to each other and yelling phrases in a jargon all their own. "Even 17 D's!" cries one exasperated figure as he elbows for room. Another day of seeking fortunes has begun at the 130-year-old Chicago Board of Trade...
...keep" has resonances that go far beyond the ice-glazed trees and horse-drawn carriage of this nostalgic volume. With a minimum of color and some gentle line drawings, Susan Jeffers gives her suite of illustrations a tactile quality: the driver's flannel seems as warm as cloth, and the swirling flakes bring a wintry chill and a welcome Frost to every page...