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...Frenchman, Jean-Olivier Hucleux, who has developed a technique of such extreme verisimilitude as to make nearly all U.S. photo-realism seem clumsy and generalized. His favorite subject is, lit erally, nature morte: French graveyards, with their raked gravel, their cakes of black granite brought to a patent-leather gloss, their iconography of morose kitsch. Hucleux paints them down to the last molecule and the result is a form of trompe l'oeil that contrives to be both meditative and irritating, done with a delicacy of touch that defies analysis...
That Cleaver is serious about the marketing of his pants seems clear. He has been awarded an international patent on the design and its many variations, and he fully expects not only to sell them around the world, but to have them on the covers of Vogue an Harper's Bazaar. He even speculated that every man in the United States will feel so compelled to buy the pants that the economic recession here will end overnight...
Folkman, Andrus Professor of Pediatric Surgery, is involved in cancer research at the Boston Children's Hospital that has been heavily publicized since the Monsanto Corporation invested $23 million for the right to patent any product of Folkman's research over the next 12 years. Harvard University and Monsanto negotiated the contract after Folkman sought to use the St. Louis firm's extensive tissue-culture equipment for work on his study of a large protein that, he hypothesizes, allows cancers to grow: Tumor Angiogenesis Factor...
...gumshoe in patent-leather footwear, a master of misstatement, a helpless fanatic for crème de cacao, soft, sweet chocolate and Russian cigarettes. Still, Hercule Poirot, famed Belgian-born detective-and literary creation of Mystery Writer Dame Agatha Christie, 84 -never failed to solve a case in all of 37 novels. "An extraordinary little man!" Christie once wrote. "Height, five feet four inches, egg-shaped head carried a little to one side, eyes that shone green when he was excited, stiff military mustache, air of dignity immense!" Alas, last week Christie announced that the archetypal armchair detective...
...patent diplomatic puffery attending it, the great U.S.-Soviet space show commanded considerable attention round the world. Interest and approval were probably greatest in the Soviet Union, where Moscow, in a sharp reversal of past practices, gave the mission prolonged press buildup and provided extensive live coverage in an apparent effort to dramatize detente to the Soviet man in the street (see box next page). Outside the U.S. and the Soviet Union, admiration of the Apollo-Soyuz flight was sometimes mixed with doubts about its diplomatic implications. Echoing a concern often heard in France, as well as in some Third...