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...siblings and their aging, truculent parents be the Next Big American Novel? What if the book courses through the sorrows of marriage, the black comedies of sex, the mental chaos of old age and the surreal misfortunes of free-market Lithuania? What if it boasts some of the most lustrous writing of any novel in years? What we're asking is whether Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections (Farrar Straus; 528 pages; $26) will become that rare thing, a literary work that everybody's reading? A lot of people are saying yes. The season's other anticipated novels include The Pickup...
...struggle to distill the building process to its essentials--vertical and horizontal structure, bare but lustrous materials--Mies produced his poetry through painstaking details. He made a fetish of the proper way to expose the steel I beams at the corners of his buildings. As Frank Lloyd Wright also did, Mies exploded the confined rooms of 19th century interior space, producing the open-plan homes and work spaces--"universal space" he called it--that are now pretty much universal...
Next week the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will announce its lustrous list of Oscar 2000 nominees. For weeks studio execs have been clambering to raise their products' profiles to catch the attention of Academy voters. Seducing Academy members with gifts is officially banned, but rules were meant to be bent. Here's a look at how studios are stumping...
...given his all to keeping Michael classy while getting every penny that His Airness's image is worth--is right about image being all, then the new marketing staff will prove handy for A-Rod. It will surely take serious Madison Avenue savvy to restore this player's once lustrous image...
...music artifacts. The embarrassing "Rock Style" show that the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City put on earlier this year stuffed both trends into one silly shopping bag. And one of the fall's biggest shows will be devoted to Giorgio Armani, the Italian clothing designer, whose lustrous things are worn by lustrous people everywhere. His retrospective unveils on Oct. 20 at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City, which was host to a history of the motorcycle two seasons ago and would probably put on the New York Auto Show next if that's what...