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...Rochelle: "Drieu's biography reads like fiction, which is why it can be preferred to his own books" and an at times unflattering portrait of Malraux Lottman refuses to editorialize. Instead, he paints a marvelously detailed picture of the writers and artists of Paris's Left Bank, their milieu and the confused, often ambiguous way they dealt with the events of their time...
...little as $25,000-hardly enough to buy the Cokes at the big network's Hollywood studios. "When it comes to numbers, we're in an entirely different world from the networks," says CBS Cable President Dick Cox, 52. "What it takes to be successful in our milieu is a hell of a lot less than what it takes in theirs...
...California Dolls and managed by a comically shrewd eccentric (Peter Falk) overcomes various tribulations to achieve a morally satisfying-and suspensefully staged-climactic confrontation with their longtime nemeses, the Toledo Tigers. Since the sport in question is something called female tag-team wrestling, there is a certain novelty of milieu and characters that has its entertainment value...
...previously reported, DeMuth's new milieu is the Office of Management and Budget, the nerve center of administration budget-slashing headed by David Stockman (Div School '70). DeMuth's title is administrator for information and regulatory affairs, and-a bonus-executive director of the President's "Task Force on Regulatory Relief...
...treat of the show, however, is a group of paintings by Gaspare Traversi. Very little is known about his life, not even the dates of his birth and death; he worked in Naples, however, between 1750 and 1775, and the cultural milieu of the city-overlapping, as it did, with lowlife, and scratching for crumbs of patronage at the skirts of the nobility-gave him limitless opportunities for satire. Traversi's two paintings of education in the arts, one showing a girl at the harpsichord, the other a young woman learning to draw, are vinegary, weird and hilarious...