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Last week Chrysler announced that it would sell its automotive subsidiaries in Britain, France and Spain to France's Peugeot-Citroën for $430 million in cash and Peugeot stock. If the deal is approved by the European governments involved-indeed, Britain may torpedo it -Peugeot would become the biggest auto manufacturer in Europe and fourth largest in the world, with sales right behind those of Chrysler itself. Chrysler would get out of the European market completely, except for its 15% share in Peugeot, thus shedding 70% of its foreign production and about a fourth of its worldwide...
...cause of all this commotion is Evita, a pop opera that opened to rave reviews in late June. A hotter West End commodity than either A Chorus Line or Annie, this song-and-dance account of Argentine First Lady Eva Perón (1919-52) may be the biggest London smash since Jesus Christ Superstar opened there six years ago. Like Superstar, which will soon pass Oliver! to become England's alltime longest-running musical, Evita is the creation of Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and Lyricist Tim Rice. Both shows also share a producer, Robert Stigwood, who is best...
...game is ubiquitous. Corporations strain to invent short, arcane names. Married women have begun to resist taking their husbands' surnames. Cassius Clay becomes Muhammad Ali in midcareer. Sambo is a target of only one minority; Italians hate the name Mafia. Rock groups, such as Jefferson Starship (né Airplane) and the Grateful Dead, have stretched the art of naming to surreal heights and depths. The President's wish to stick to Jimmy as his official name perhaps ingratiated him more with the public than any other step he has taken-and may, in the end, have hinted more...
...that the law is probably unenforceable, retailers reported brisk sales of sanitary devices ranging from 15? disposable cardboard shovels to $11 long-handled pooper scoopers equipped with a flashlight for nocturnal emitters. One apartment complex unveiled a canine comfort station, whose white-tiled premises were dutifully christened by Toto (né Megs), Dorothy's dog in the Broadway musical The Wiz. On the first day of the law, only 22 litter tickets were issued; yet to close observers of sidewalks and parks, there was a marked diminution in dog litter and lots of owners were carrying bags. This...
...show abounds in deliberately "poetic" photographs, over which surrealism?which, one is I reminded, Susan Sontag claims to be the natural mode of photographic vision?presides. Some are deliberately manipulated montages, like Jerry N. Uelsmann's dream pictures. Others are plain sights deliberately set up, like Ralph Gibson's The Enchanted Hand, 1969?a delicately ectoplastic fantasy, very much in the spirit of Joseph Cornell. Some photographs are manifestly the product of chance, an incongruous moment caught in flight. The most startling of these is Mark Cohen's Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, June 1975, which shows a girl's head almost...