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...home, and an exquisite old Claremont, Calif., high school. There is also a streetcar manufacturing plant in San Francisco that serves only spaghetti dishes; and a reconstructed Colorado-style mining camp called The Chicago Claim Company, where luncheon menus are printed on land-claim certificates, and the decor features outsize mining pans. The place is, literally, a gold mine...
Because many modern problems (e.g., crowded parks) "are the side effects of success, not the fruit of failure," Wallenberg suggests that they are not really problems at all. He dismisses critics of the food and decor at McDonald's, for example, with Ihe assertion that "the function of the fast-food business ... is quite simple: Women's Liberation." That is, it frees Mom from shopping, cooking and washing up, so don't complain. In the same vein, "suburban sprawl is a pejorative phrase that describes perhaps the most comfortable mass residential living conditions in history...
...work became, as Kaplan stresses, a curious synthesis of extravagant, imaginative decor with an almost pedantic spirit of academic research. Of this synthesis, Salome Dancing Before Herod is the masterpiece. Perhaps it is not, in formal terms, a great painting. But it is quite unforgettable, suffused by apprehension. Salome is less a dancing girl than a priestess, absorbed in her solipsistic gesture, gliding on point across the inlaid floor. In the brooding Herod, the standing executioner, the vista of Moorish arches and sifting gloom, one sees the apex of the kind of sensibility that in the hands of a Cecil...
...galactic attraction of the previews was Yves St. Laurent, perennial sun-prince of haute couture. Midst gypsy violinists and the Second Empire decor of his new couture house, St. Laurent presented a collection that left little doubt 1974 could turn into the year of the dress. Unlike the sad "sack" of the '60s, St. Laurent's Naive Chemise features more elegant tailoring, arm-length sleeves with tightly buttoned cuffs, high necklines and low, mid-calf hems. "For me, the chemise is an expression of freedom," said Libertarian Yves. "I wanted to make the fabric float over and just...
Among the three, it's largely a matter of personal taste. Baskin-Robbins has the most flavors and often has good, offbeat treats like Pralines and Cream. Brigham's, with its screaming red, white and blue decor, is a little over-packaged; it has a good selection but is usually the most crowded of the three. Its ice cream is a little softer than the ice cream at Baskin-Robbins or Bailey's. Bailey's has by far the most charm of the three--marble floors and highquality ice cream--but its selection is limited and its prices high...