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...midcentury now. For if ever one decade were in love with another, the '90s is crazy about the '50s. This is not the '50s of Happy Days or Pleasantville, where people are decent but unsophisticated. This is the sleekly glamorous decade of architects Richard Neutra, Pierre Koenig, John Lautner and Albert Frey and designers Charles and Ray Eames. This is the decade when the rest of the world looked with envy at American products, homes and life-styles. Some people consider it the golden age of American design in this century...
...budgets can indulge their interest in the '50s in the photo-filled pages of magazines like Metropolitan Home, Elle Decor and Wallpaper* (which, like TIME, is owned by Time Warner). A slew of books have come out this year, including lush coffee-table tomes on Koenig, Frey, Lautner and the photographer most closely associated with the era, Julius Shulman...
...Cage Aux Folles III--The Wedding Directed by Georges Lautner At the USA Copley Place...
...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...