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...51st state, forgetting that a product or business technique that goes over big in Memphis will not necessarily succeed in Munich. The Common Market notwithstanding, Western Europe is still composed of individual nations and sections that have widely different tastes and buying idiosyncrasies. Says Belgium's Marcel de Meirleir, a plant-location expert: "Americans just don't understand that, for instance, Rotterdam and Antwerp are commercially not just two different cities-they're different worlds...
Although Sachs never knew Proust, he knew several of his homosexual servants, including one who ran a house of male prostitution originally financed by the novelist. From the servants' recollections, Sachs draws a picture of "an unknown Marcel Proust of the great, terrible depths," whose sadism led him to butcher shops where he watched calves being slaughtered and who once had a rat brought to him so that he could stab it to death with a hatpin. Proust, says Sachs, was "a kind of monster child, whose mind had all the experiences of a man, and whose soul...
Sylvie Vartan's escape flue is already open. She is making a movie for 20th Century-Fox, an adaptation of Marcel Achard's Palate, with Jean Marais and Danielle Darrieux. The chances are that she will make it as an actress. And with her considerable grace and nicely mannered charm, there should be no doubt that she will be lending style to the women of the Champs-Elysèes for much time to come...
...Hague, Marcel Breuer built a blunt, lantern-windowed structure as stolid as a Dutch door. In Athens, Walter Gropius used the same Pentelic marble that forms the Parthenon. Edward Durell Stone's grillwork adorns New Delhi like a Hindu temple. In Baghdad, José Luis Sert put up a tentlike structure fit for a caliph and cooled by channels of river water. Saarinen warmed his Oslo embassy with teak screens; Yamasaki lightened his Kobe consulate with airy Japanese panels. The openings of U.S. embassies have come to be as eagerly anticipated as big Broadway first nights. This month...
...religion. All in pantomime, it opens with a gaudy circus parade moving through a wooded countryside. "Into this great Circus of Life," intones a narrator, "came a man who dared to be different." Bringing up the rear is a figure, all white-on-white from flowing robes to chalky Marcel Marceau makeup. He is riding on a donkey...