Word: flaws
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...flaw is in no way as serious as claimed by most of the PR rowdies in their current symposium on "Art, Culture and Conservatism." For, if Modern Occasions sometimes carries a just bias against artistic pyrotechnics to a fault, any number of publications--with much larger circulations--are eager to accept Tom O'Horgan or even Richard Brautigan as serious innovators...
Kosters jokes that wage-price controls must be working, and working evenhanded, because "business is complaining that it cannot survive on recession profits and labor says it is being forced to swallow inflation-when the figures show that real wages and profits are both up." The major flaw is that food prices, which are largely uncontrolled, are rising rapidly, undermining consumer confidence in the whole program. Kosters still argues that food prices reflect not cost-push inflation but the pressure of demand upon a limited supply. He is beginning to wonder, however, whether controls may have to be extended...
...whole identity, to attribute to him any lie that sounded entertaining, and to rely on the assumption that Hughes was too old and too sick and too neurotic to defend himself, the whole tour de force seems less a caper than an assault. The even more basic flaw in Irving's portrait of himself as heroic caperer is his view that the gullible deserve to be gulled. "The name of the game" is a phrase that keeps coming from Suskind, who also likes to quote W.C. Fields' untrue statement that "you can't cheat an honest...
...into the canyon walls." He therefore deprecates Manhattan's architectural landmarks-Lud-wig Mies van der Rohe's Seagram building and Eero Saarinen's CBS building, for example-calling them "gigantic sculptures that do nothing for the city. Look at their plazas. Dead spaces!" Their tragic flaw, he insists, is that the architects designed the ground floor to relate to the building rather than to the street, where the activity...
Well and good. But Kaufman has his own flaw: he has made it quite clear that he does not know when to stop. All the pipes and wires in the new building lobby will be exposed and treated almost as if they were works of art. Like all whimsy, the joke can pall. "It's a little fun," says Kaufman. "It doesn't mean a damn thing-and we can always take it out. All we're trying to do is add levity to this somber city...