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...like Toyota and BMW from pulling out of the sport anyway (Honda had quit at the end of 2008.) That leaves only three major carmakers - Ferrari (owned by Fiat), Mercedes-Benz and Renault (though the latter recently sold a majority stake in the racing team to Luxembourg investment firm Genii Capital) - still in F1. "The sport just wasn't delivering the value," says John Howett, head of Toyota Motor Sports. For the new season, some of the old names have been replaced by entrepreneurs with more dash than cash. Ecclestone calls the new teams "out of their depth" before...
...special chapel and would form, Runge hoped, the nucleus of a new religious cult. The surviving studies for them, like Morning, 1803, are remarkably hard to decipher as doctrine. Yet that blue world of twining blossoms-Runge's amaryllises and lilies are the ancestors of art nouveau-of genii and weird, pale cherubs is so exquisitely designed and rendered with such pantheistic conviction that it attains the force of religious art. The spiritualist urge lasted far into the 19th century. Its last major bearer was Arnold Böcklin-a Swiss, but included in this show by adoption...
...tales are too strong to ignore. Princes and Princesses Charming, sturdy folk and innocent children are besieged by malicious forces. Tooth imps and underarm pixies generate embarrassing vapors; gremlins leave grimy stigmata on clothing, and devilkins foul points and plugs. Inevitably, the hapless are rescued by products borne by genii in plastic bottles and godmothers in overalls...
...electric light. Our inability to uninvent will prove ever more troublesome as our technology proliferates and refines more and more unimagined, seemingly irrelevant wants. Driven by "needs" for the unnecessary, we remain impotent to conjure the needs away. Our Aladdin's lamp of technology makes myriad new genii appear, but cannot make them disappear. The automobile - despite all we have learned of its diabolism - cannot be conjured away. The most we seem able to do is to make futile efforts to appease the automobile -by building parking temples on choice urban real estate and by deferring to the automobile...
...simplistic notion of the '40s that Negroes are just like whites beneath the skin is more than an embarrassment now. And Rainbow's light-headed whimsy is now done better by television, with its dreamed-of genii or married witches. Even so, the movie might have survived were it not for the ham-handed direction of Francis Ford Coppola, 29, whose only previous Hollywood feature was the moderately comic You're a Big Boy Now. Astaire and Clark are saddled with threadbare brogues, and both talk as if they were dictating letters to a tape recorder. Tommy...