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Unsentimental? Hardly. Colette's self-portraits were coy, her prose humid with nostalgia; but Phelps ignores these failings. Belles Saisons is a gesture of hom age, not a work of criticism. This is not the first Colette album; only three years ago, Yvonne Mitchell published Colette: A Taste for Life, a generously illustrated biography that reproduced many of the photographs included here, and with a far more comprehensive text. But Co lette was inexhaustibly photogenic. "There were no more beautiful eyes in the world," declared her last husband, Maurice Goudeket, "nor any which knew better...
Harry's obvious talent has carried Blondie through a musical identity crisis. The tension between the elements of '50s pop and '70s experimentalism which the group tried to fuse made its second album, Plastic Letters, an unsatisfying anomaly. Harry's too-coy but lovable cover of the oldie "Denise" just didn't sound right next to the empty, brutal "Detroit 442" or "Cautious...
...named to succeed Iacocca. By present reading, the front runner is Executive Vice President William Bourke, 51, who heads the company's North American automotive division. A self-confident and well-traveled manager who converses with authority about world politics and many other subjects. Bourke has hardly been coy about his ambition to move into Iacocca's office. He was not happy to be left out of the 1977 reorganization that set up the office of the chief executive...
...Coy Eklund 62 president of the Equitable Life Assurance Society, calls this "the spirit of coming right with people." He does what he can, whether by sitting on the boards of a fistful of black, Puerto Rican, Indian and women's organizations or by compiling a dictionary of the Chippewa language (he grew up near a Chippewa reservation in Minnesota). Eklund views the world with the perpetual optimism of the insurance salesman, and one of his happiest days came a few Thursdays ago, when he named 47 new corporate officers. Thirteen are women-and that goes far beyond tokenism...
From his high, sometimes lonely perch, the The Equitable's Coy Eklund Equitable's chief has a unique means of keeping in touch. He has set up three panels of employees-for women, minorites and middle managers-and he meets with each for a long afternoon six times a year answering questions and listening to proposals...