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...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...
...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...
...architecture as California gaudy or Hollywood vulgar or Spanish phony. While Los Angeles, like many big cities, has mile after mile of uninspired, tractlike homes, more and more of its buildings and residences are the work of some of the world's best architects: Richard J. Neutra, John Lautner, Lloyd Wright, William Pereira, Victor Gruen, Welton Becket. Tasteful homes have sprouted everywhere-along the streets and boulevards, in the glens and canyons, around the foothills, up the sides of the hills along the beaches, out into the Mojave Desert...
Israel Lazar, also known as William Lawrence, 54, sometime manager of the now extinct Daily Worker, was identified by ex-Communist Witness John Lautner as head of a Communist Party "cultural division" that directed and coordinated the work of secret Reds in the entertainment industry. Lazar refused to confirm or deny anything...
...other testimony Melish denied that the American-Soviet Friendship Council is Red-dominated and contradicted testimony by such ex-Communists as John Lautner and Fordham Professor Louis Budenz (who had testified that Melish was a party member). After testifying that he had written two stories for the Daily Worker, Melish was asked whether he knew that the Worker is the "official organ" of the Communist Party. His answer: "That's hearsay." Pressed to identify Communists who came to him for advice, Melish stood on his cloth: he claimed "ministerial privilege" to keep their confidences...