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Once the Uruguayan-born Ott's design was chosen by Mitterrand in late 1983 after an open competition, however, the sniping really started. There were whispers that Ott's utilitarian, curvilinear design had been selected by mistake. There was a revolving door of administrators. During a two-year conservative interregnum, the project was temporarily halted...
...beyond this, Rowlandson absorbed -- and anglicized -- a general style: he was a rococo artist, though this is partly hidden by his love of satire (never a rococo trait). He constructed his designs from whiplash lines and curvilinear rhythms. He was devoted to Rubens, preserving on a tiny scale the rush and tumble and fullness (if not the grand muscular articulation) of that master's paintings. British critic Sacheverell Sitwell was right to compare Rowlandson's sketch of guests floundering, bare-bottomed and head over heels, down the staircase at a "crush" at Somerset House to Rubens' Last Judgment in Munich...
With its turbocharged engine and curvilinear profile, the Swedish-built Saab 900 was a chariot of choice for arrivistes of the mid-1980s. But now Saab- Scania's auto division is hitting the skids, largely because of intensified competition and a relatively weak dollar that has pushed the cost of Saab's newest 9000 turbo model to a base price of $30,795. The parent company confirmed rumors last week that it is discussing a possible linkup with Ford, which could give the Swedish company's finances a boost. The U.S. automaker is believed to be particularly interested in ventures...
Downtown, new office towers rise in curvilinear splendor. On the West Side, the first of a series of high-tech parks has opened, with two genetic-technology firms as the first tenants. Plans for the 1992 World's Fair are under way. Indeed, a local business publication predicts a spirited upturn this year and says the long-term future looks even brighter. Still, in the other part of Chicago, the old world of smokestacks and stockyards, the recession dominates. The city has lost 160,000 jobs in the past decade, mostly in manufacturing. The steel mills that rim Lake...
...Ziegfeld Follies were backdrops for the extravagances of the age. In the postwar era, however, Erté's conceits were often dismissed as high camp or low kitsch. Undeterred, he kept on painting the Erté woman, who is the focus of most of his grand designs. Stylized, curvilinear and faintly kinky, she is identified by her festoon of jewels, trailing furs or crown of feathers. Often accompanying her, on a diamond-studded leash, is a borzoi or a leopard...