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...chronicling the early days of Japan's economic boom. He was reassigned as chief of our Detroit bureau in 1971, just when fuel-efficient Japanese cars were beginning to vex U.S. automakers. Returning to head the Tokyo bureau in 1978, he found Japan's economy in full flower. Reingold's split-screen perspective on the U.S. and Japan proved to be invaluable in reporting this week's cover story. Says he: "Since auto imports are the major focus of contention between the two great trading partners now, comparing how things are done Chang, Reingold and Iwama...
...Gersten) to Utah where they can make a new life growing natural food. With a wonderfully husky voice, Franklin creates a character of suprising complexity: the world traveler who says she's seen it all and then buys 20 acres of Utah real estate from a radio ad; the flower child who steals from an old man. She has the good fortune to have the best lines in the show. When asked where she'll stay in Utah, she says, "The country's gone to shit; there's always a motel." But Franklin's insightful portrayal only makes the shortcomings...
...human depravity that has marked the twentieth century. He questions whether free will and moral worth can have any real meaning at all in the face of such horrors as the Nazi extermination of the Jews. The spiritual bankruptcy that has turned Toomey's great-niece and 1400 other flower-children into drones eager to be manipulated by a murderous peace-and-granola martinet is a similarly graphic example of the same twentieth-century morality that allowed the Nazi tragedy to take place...
...Margaret Cameron, master of brooding portraits and symbolic tableaux, Mathew Brady, engraving the Civil War on the mind of America. After Daguerre is a rich reminder that though photographers, still hobbled by glacially slow exposures, were dabbling with developing techniques like medieval alchemists, photography in France was about to flower by the early 1850s, as soon as it became possible to make many prints easily from a single negative...
...formality for the private quarters. "I think I'm a frustrated interior decorator," she says, with the prospect of being frustrated no longer. Rooms upstairs will probably be done eclectically with English antiques, Chinese vases and old favorites from their home in Pacific Palisades. Freesias are her favorite flower-purple, yellow, red. In fact, red is Nancy's favorite color and will surely blaze in the new White House decor...