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Diene Arbus begins with the photographer's Fairy tale birth in March of 1923 into a world of wealth and fashion. Arbus's father, David Nemerov, headed. New York's extravagant Russeks department store, reputed to be the place where millionaires bought gifts to lavish on their "kept" women. Her mother, the lovely Gertrude Russeks, was the daughter of the store's founder. Forever ill at ease with the over-indulgent life style her parents provided, the young Diane would force herself to "stand on the window ledge of her parents' apartment in the San Remo, 11 stories above Central...
Ronald Reagan extols them. Venture capitalists lavish money on them. They seem to be everywhere, starting their own companies, making megabucks in everything from computers to package-delivery services, and turning up on talk shows as the new Beautiful People of the 1980s...
...Madison Avenue, Watch Entrepreneur Stewart Unger last fall opened Time Will Tell, a watch boutique that sells everything from period Cartier (a 1930 Tank at around $2,500) to certified Mickey Mouse watches ($500.) "The demand is just about to bubble over," predicts Edward Faber, who shows a lavish collection of oldies in his jewelry gallery off Fifth Avenue. "These watches are still significantly underpriced...
...distinguished thing" yields to no potions or megadoses of prose. DeLillo's gifts are lavish, but his vision is a bit facile. The white noise of the title is electronic static forced into symbolic service as some sort of universal death rattle. Throughout, technology is depicted as the ominous messenger of our common fate; even the price scanners in supermarkets are spooky. Discovering malevolence in things and systems rather than in people is a little callow, especially when DeLillo's solemn moralizing overruns his comedy. Perhaps that is why, after eight books, he still seems like a writer making...
Women's Wear Daily and gossip columnists were thrilled by the self- consciously lavish example she set. Democratic Socialite Oatsie Charles, an arbiter of Washington taste, was pleased too. "The White House sets the tone for everything that goes on here," says Charles. "It was nice to know that she cared." But many newspaper editorialists and a large portion of the citizenry thought the extravagance unseemly. "She was one of the best single targets for the opposition's attacks about 'fairness' and special interests," says a White House strategist. Thin-skinned Nancy Reagan was wounded by the criticism, especially since...