Word: lautner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cage Aux Folles III--The Wedding Directed by Georges Lautner At the USA Copley Place...
...witty Amherst-bound offspring. But her marriage to a conservative tax lawyer has stunted rather than matured her, and she has persisted as confused, dogged and sensitive as a teenage heroine. How He Saved Her tells the story of Nora's enlightenment through her elusive and brutal seducer. Lautner, who true to Gothic convention looms tall, dark, and (as this is a novel of the '80s), moves with the "highly specialized eroticism of heavy machinery...
...parable: "Sadistic women have a lot to teach the rest of us," the narration concludes at one point in all seriousness. The beautiful, wealthy and unfulfilled woman leaves her husband and the comforts of a Fifth Avenue apartment to become a "courtesan to truth," or more literally, to Lautner. Her predicament revolves around her inability to determine what constitutes duty--to an oppressive mother, an enfeebled father, a rigid and insecure mate--and to free herself of all unincurred obligation. Secondly, she aims to lead a moral life, to fight hungers of all sorts. Her dream is rooted in memories...
NORA's autobiography is that of a disciple, but one senses that she as narrator has still not understood the ideal towards which the novel pushes, the grasping of Lautner's particular ideology. Her struggle is therefore simply a document, neither cast into perspective nor interpreted incisively. This results partly from the limitations of Schwamm's technique: the author frequently displays such annoying faults as complacently explicating the dialogue she has just penned. Nora's attitude towards her father, for example, is summarized: "She loved him and regarded him as wise-after-all. Sometimes she was ashamed...
...California State University in Los Angeles, Rense says she has turned down bribes - and at least one proposal of marriage - from people who wanted to be in Architectural Digest. If homeowners are flattered to be picked, decorators and builders have more pragmatic reasons to court Rense. Says Architect John Lautner: "Digest's readers are people who have money and are willing to pay for what they see in the magazine. Whenever I appear in Digest, I get commissions right away." While Rense's taste nettles some decorators, she is given high marks for the way she handles...