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...contrast is potentially entertaining: a more or less authentic hero submits to movie mythologizing, while a made-up hero edges toward real bravery. Edwards tries to make this point through a labyrinthine murder mystery that takes the pair from high Hollywood (the first Academy Awards ceremony) to low (a house of ill fame where the girls impersonate movie stars). Edwards demonstrates a fondness for period dress, decor and autos, but he fails to develop an attitude, satirical or otherwise, toward his subject. And the obsessive twisting of his plot imposes a sinking weight of expository words on the picture...
Still, Winter is a relatively painless way to absorb a great deal of information. Those who feel guilty wasting their time on made-up stories can assuage their consciences with Deighton's exhaustive supply of names, dates and places that mattered. Or they might wait for the mini-series for which this sprawling novel seems tailor-made...
...simply survived to write a gripping personal account of her imprisonment between 1966 and 1973, during China's Cultural Revolution. Cheng, now 72, whose only crime was being born into a wealthy, land-owning Chinese family, was thrown into solitary confinement and ordered by Red Guards to confess to made-up crimes. She refused. Her captors finally released her in the mistaken belief that she was dying of cancer...
...Allante certainly comes dear. It is by far the most expensive production car that GM has ever made, surpassing the 1986 Seville ($27,600). Christened with a made-up Italianate name, the 1987 Allante got its start in 1982, when Cadillac engaged the venerated Pininfarina firm, best known for its Ferrari body styles, to design the car and build its outer shell. The car's planners searched all over the world for the components, settling on an electronics system from Japan and aluminum hood and deck lid from Switzerland, among other parts. Pininfarina assembles the bodies in a factory near...
...dark line along the upper and lower lids to augment or replace conventional eyeliner. Since the operation was introduced in the U.S. a year ago, about 15,000 of her modern-day sisters have scurried off to ophthalmologists, dermatologists and plastic surgeons in unblinking pursuit of a fuss-free made-up look. The operation appeals especially to athletic women who do not want to worry about runny eyeliner and to those with poor eyesight, arthritis or allergies who have trouble putting on or wearing eye makeup. The cost: usually...