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Norman Parkinson: Photographs 1935-1990 (Rizzoli; $65). "I do not promote the idea that photography is an art form," said the late British fashion photographer, who attributed his success to "hobgoblins that live inside the camera." An impish lightness of being animates these superb images, all of them marked by...
Greed cuts both ways, of course. Six Labrador retriever breeders say they have filed a class action against the AKC and the Labrador Retriever Club Inc. for changing the breed standard to favor slimmer, longer-legged animals over the traditional stockier, shorter ones -- thereby devaluing the out-of-date model...
And, it seems, every journalist over 30 wants to mine that life for meaning. Or at least gossip. In Boulevard of Broken Dreams (Viking; $22.95), Paul Alexander, who has written books on Andy Warhol and Sylvia Plath, argues that Dean was a homosexual whose romances with starlets were so much...
This long-legged quartet predicted that the Fox network drama Models Inc. would only further degrade their profession. How right they were. The Melrose Place spin-off, which premiered last week, portrays models not only as bubble- headed but, worse, as immensely unlikable. What we know of real supermodels -- of...
Humans have no such advantages. In addition to slippery rocks, infernal heat and regular downpours, the region has leeches and malaria to discourage two- legged visitors. On the Vietnamese side, even native hunters rarely remain long in the forest; instead they catch game by setting snares or by using dogs...