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...Harper's, Scribner's and Century magazines. As a current retrospective exhibition at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts shows (see opposite page), his brush was already sensing moods of light and time of day. He was far removed from the established neoclassical Parisian academicians, whose plump-fleshed vignettes of rapine, bustle, moments of battle and historical panoramas were the fine art of the day. But his tone still smacked of old-masterish umber...
Broadening Choice. Mohn grew rich by adapting to West Germany a U.S. success: the mass-market book club. He persuaded the closely bound fraternity of 5,000 book dealers and door-to-door book salesmen to solicit memberships by offering the solicitors plump 41½% commissions on each volume sold to any member they signed up. While his competitors concentrated on small editions of intellectual literature, Mohn brought out volumes with mass appeal from encyclopedias to schmalz. Applications rolled in-80% of them from young people who had never before read books outside of school. Mohn now has four clubs...
...Whitehall uses his prosperous kingdom as a military and diplomatic pied-a-terre. Seemingly, Nasser-style socialism should have little appeal for Bahreinis, who boast the highest literacy rate in the Arab world, ten free, modern hospitals, electricity in 95% of their homes. For all his benevolence, however, the plump, diminutive Sheik is an unabashed autocrat who prefers to rule his 182,000 subjects exactly as his ancestors have since 1783, when they drove out the Persians...
...Brescia critic once described as "the rustic and cantankerous dialect of his own district." The results were often warm and whimsical. Windows and archways open onto rocky landscapes typical of the region. His Saviour is not the emaciated, sublimely anguished figure of his colleagues, but pasta-fed and plump, his saints more spirited than spiritual. His chubby cherubs often pout like naughty children; in St. Anthony of Padua they hold up a garland from a lemon tree which then, as now, grew on the shores of nearby Lake Garda...
Expanding Volume. Ads seduce the eye and ear everywhere in Asia. They blink in neon from signs that share the skyline with Bangkok's temple spires and from plump helium balloons in the skies over Taipei. Billboards in Rangoon hymn a product called "Monkey Brain Tonic." In Thailand, such popular TV shows as Alfred Hitchcock and The Deputy are often interrupted by commercials that run up to 15 minutes, and many of the country's 80 commercial radio stations carry eight-minute plugs-partly because time sells for as little as $1 a minute...