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...transition of Italian architecture from fascist monument to utilitarian modern. He became an acclaimed leader of the spare and sensuous new style in the 1960s, creating innovative and clean-lined office furniture and machinery for Olivetti, a task he still performs. But influenced by the Pop painting of Roy Lichtenstein, rock music and Indian mysticism, he surprised colleagues with Olivetti's plastic Valentine portable typewriter. He later did a table and stools called Mickey Mouse, and designed a disco outside Beirut. The restless maestro explains his professional schizophrenia in typically surreal terms: "If you see a girl...
...airliners thousands of miles away. But the memory of recent experience does not seem to be the Administration's strong point. Last week's U.N. vote to censure the Grenada invasion failed 11-1. The veto vote belonged to Assistant United States Delegate to the United Nations Charles M. Lichtenstein. One wonders what would happen if the Russians were to come up with tapes proving that the Administration had falsely legitimized the invasion and had known about the Cuban presence all along. If they do, Lichtenstein and Co. will look pretty ridiculous being asked to sail off into the sunset...
Statements such as Lichtenstein's could become dangerously self-fulfilling. Sure enough, the evening that Reagan's expression of disdain for an American-based United Nations appeared in the media the Senate voted by a lopsided margin of 66 to 23 to cut by half the U.S. contribution to the United Nations and its agencies. The United Nations depends on the United States for 25 percent of its budget, or a contribution that was set at $363 million for fiscal year 1984. As a founding member and the biggest monetary supporter of the United Nations system, the United States must...
...focus of the General Assembly's attention shifted from Soviet responsibility for the airline crash to the question of American responsibility to the United Nations, the second-ranking U.S. delegate to the United Nations. Charles Lichtenstein, made matters worse by "strongly encouraging" U.N. member-states who feel unwelcome "to seriously consider removing themselves and this organization from the soil of the United States." Lichtenstein concluded icily. "We will put no impediment in your way and we will be at dockside bidding you a fond farewell as you set off into the sunset...
...days later, even though the State Department had discounted Lichtenstein's comments as representing a personal view. President Reagan gave them an official blessing by saying that they had "the hearty approval of most people in America." Score 1 for American chauvinism, 0 for American magnanimity...