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...Debts. His own work reveals an exquisite sense of style, but he never discussed art in stylistic terms; he was apt (and at this distance one cannot know to what degree he used it as a strategic ploy) to act the salty curmudgeon when other artists were discussed. Most French painting he professed to ignore. "I saw a painting of a boat by Manet-to me it was a joke -to me Manet didn't know boats -didn't know the sea." Marin did, however, admire Boudin, the 19th century painter of seascapes and beach resorts-"He knew...
Since a splendid gimmick is about all there is to The Walter Syndrome, there is little to say about the book beyond the fact that the ploy is notably audacious and that it works. The time is the late Depression era. The place, of all places, is the classified-ad department of a New York daily, and the prime instrument for working evil is the telephone. Neely's notion of atmosphere is to cram his pages with nostalgic nouns from the '30s-the Manhattan Room, Vincent Lopez, Ozzie Nelson and Harriet Milliard. However, the Jack the Ripper-style...
...films last year), all of it exploiting Indian women. When Candice gets around to her long-promised sex scene, the director discreetly cuts away. I suppose he might try to defend himself on grounds of realism-Miss Bergen's orgasms hardly being central to his theme-but the whole ploy screams of double standards...
Administrative Ploy. Devaluation was prevented by Guido Carli, governor of the Bank of Italy, who made three shrewd moves. First, he raised the interest rates on Italian bonds to make them as attractive to lire investors as foreign issues had been. Next, through a neat administrative ploy, Carli made currency speculating less profitable. Foreign banks had been required only to report their lire intake by phone to their nearest correspondent bank in Italy to receive full credit in any currency. Carli decreed that banks abroad would have to send the lira bills to Rome before they could get foreign funds...
...election to the presidency over that son-of-a-bitch Richard Nixon. I explained that by waiting to release the U-2 Pilot [Francis] Gary Powers until after the American election, we kept Nixon from being able to claim that he could deal with the Russians; our ploy made a difference of at least half a million votes...