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...francs to 10 million. Even one of his "starvation period" paintings "radiates the equivalent of a small glass of milk." As the press and art critics rave, the public riots for its share of edible art. Lafleur is bureaucratized as a French national resource. But when the nutritive fad is played out, a Lafleur painting is about as valuable as a leftover brioche...
...Merely a Fad? As Ford's biggest customer, Jim Moran takes a vital interest in the company's plans-but he is a man of independent mind. He thinks that the trend to luxury compacts, combined with a trend to greater power, may eventually cause the compact to grow right up again into a bigger, more comfortable car. He considers present compacts-including his hot-selling Falcon-transient fads that will probably win not much more than their present (30%) share of the market...
...Hollywood, which knows something about such things, witnessed such a spectacle of eye gouging, groin kicking and neck chopping. To a lavishly mirrored studio on Los Angeles' South La Cienega Boulevard last week came a pack of TV and film stars to watch an exhibition of the latest fad in craze-crazy filmland: karate. A more violent cousin of jujitsu and judo, Japanese-imported karate (pronounced kah-rah-tay) aims at delivering a fatal or merely maiming blow with hand, finger, elbow or foot, adopts the defensive philosophy that an attacker deserves something more memorable than a flip over...
...ever used them in quite the manner of Parisian Painter Yves Klein. He has his nude models smear themselves with paint, then lets them hurl themselves at a blank canvas while he shouts directions from a stepladder. By such tricks, Klein has become at 32 the fad of gallery-going France, and his prices have risen fourfold in the past two years. Last week he invaded West Germany with an eyebrow-raising exhibit in the textile town of Krefeld, twelve miles northwest of Düsseldorf. The good people of Krefeld hardly knew what to make...
...Lonesome Tonight?, including the original by Elvis Presley, which is now the nation's No. 1 hit. But if Elvis stays up there, there may well be a dozen variations on the theme. The Lonesome craze is the most blatant example of pop music's latest fad: the "answer" record, which provides an answer to a question raised in an established...