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...sense, art nouveau invented female chic in the popular arts. Not since the 16th century mannerists had there been such a plethora of delicately icy women as now appeared on that new form, the advertising poster. Mucha, a Czech émigré who became Sarah Bernhardt's court artist, and followers like Privat Livemont helped change the sexual prototypes of the 19th century before they launched a million psychedelic posters in the late 20th...
Perle, 34, who has been working for Jackson since 1969, has a special concern for Soviet dissidents and Jewish émigrés. Along with Jackson, he contrived the 1974 trade bill amendment that tied most-favored-nation status with emigration from Russia-which infuriated Moscow as "unacceptable" interference in "the internal affairs of the Soviet Union...
...oldest royal victim of Communist rule is Grand Duke Vladimir Cyrilovitch, 58, cousin of the last czar and claimant to the throne of Russia. Born in exile, he has never set foot in Russia, but travels widely, visiting Russian émigré colonies. He is married to Grand Duchess Leonida, whose family ruled Georgia for 13 centuries. They live in Madrid and have one daughter...
Some of the yordim reply that they have left for one reason only: greater opportunity. They believe Israel cannot offer the scope, either financially or intellectually, that the émigrés are seeking. Says Columbia University Sociologist Amitai Etzioni, a former Israeli who came to the U.S. in 1958: "In Israel, you deal with Israel. In the U.S., you deal with the U.S., the world-and Israel." Cardiologist Yzhar Charuzi says that his career would have been stunted if he had remained in Israel. "Here I have my opportunities," says Charuzi, now head of the coronary-care unit...
...planning to marry Marina Stcherbatcheff, 30, a lissome brunette Frenchwoman who is a secretary in the French embassy in Moscow. Although the Soviet marriage bureau granted the pair permission to wed on Nov. 11, the Foreign Ministry began pressuring the French to force Marina, daughter of Russian émigrés to France, to leave the country by the end of September. Spassky feared that once his fiancée went, she would not be allowed to return for the wedding. Failing in his attempts to have the ceremony moved to an earlier date, Spassky complained, "I feel like...