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Santiago's relationships with Kathie and Ana suggest that the individual can be a myth determined by his associations. Santiago's archetypical heroes, Victor Hugo and Karl Marx, flow into his present through their writings and influence his every action. The result: simultaneity...
From January 1977 to November 1980, Greenfeld records what goes on in his house in Pacific Palisades, Calif. Both sons enter their teens, and Karl, who gets there first, begins outraging his father with typical adolescent behavior. After one acrimonious argument, the author manages a desperate joke: "This family could be worse. Noah could be normal." But Noah is not. "It is no fun," Greenfeld notes, "to have him pull hair right out of your scalp and then put it in his mouth and swallow it." And Noah is growing physically, if not mentally. Someday soon the parents will...
...back ward of a state hospital." So the Greenfelds vacillate over "what to do about Noah." Gallows humor provides occasional refuge. The entry for June 15, 1980, reads in its entirety: "I've spent Father's Day wondering how I could kill Noah and hang the rap on Karl...
...Lacroix is the new superstar of fashion, the darling of last week's Paris couture shows, extolled by the press and praised by competitors. Karl Lagerfeld of Chanel calls him a "breath of fresh air." Giorgio Armani, whose severe, classic designs are the antithesis of Lacroix's, wishes him luck. "Welcome," he enthuses, "to Lacroix with his fresh follies...
...original designer and the third generation of his family to run the business. De Mouy was all of 29 and determined "to see that, three generations after me, it is still a family house." His plan: install a designer who would restore the house to the pinnacle of fashion. Karl Lagerfeld and Marc Bohan of Dior both spent apprenticeships there, but these young talents eventually moved on. Patou was too conservative then, devoting most of its energy to its lucrative perfumes, especially...