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East European natives often enjoy important advantages over other Western businessmen. Besides speaking the language of their prospective customers and partners, many enjoy longtime links through immigrant communities to those who have recently taken power. Says Chicago businessman Donald Mucha, 58, who exports machinery components to his native Poland: "It's exciting to be on the inside of rebuilding a nation." Known as the returniks, these natives of Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary and other new bastions of private enterprise are helping manufacture consumer goods and build housing, hotels and department stores...
...almost as mucha fixture of fall as football: the annual renewal of the struggle between the natural gas and oil industries to fuel America's furnaces. In a multimillion-dollar ad campaign, the American Gas Association has been seeking to persuade the 16 million owners of homes heated with oil that its product is the nation's "best energy buy" and "the most efficient way to heat." Fuel oil suppliers, for their part, say their competitors' contentions that gas burns more efficiently and will remain substantially cheaper represent "false claims" and "hype." Said ads sponsored by dealers...
...Breton and Norman descent converse in varied patois. While Dutch is their official language, few Statians or Sabans ever use it. Many, however, do speak Papiamento, the merry island melange of Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, French, English and African dialects ("Bon tim ni un quenta ta coppé tras mi mucha muhé; bai hombre sushi, i lagele na paz. "Translation: "You have no business chasing my girl; go away, you nasty man, and leave her alone...
...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...
...Alphonse Mucha was a sculptor too, and nothing in this show epitomizes the art nouveau vision (or fantasy) of woman better than a bust he designed around 1899 for a Parisian jeweler. This astonishing object, whose form shifts like water in the twining reflections of silver flesh and gold hair, is perversely liturgical-a parody (done, one should recall, for a public whose cultural background was still Catholic) of medieval head reliquaries. The image, however, is not a saint or a magdalen but that sibylline bitch of the fin-de-siècle imagination, the Fatal Woman, La Belle Dame...