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Sound simple? It isn't. Sensitivity to color subtleties and a sophisticated flair for mixing them are fairly rare even among the French-couture royalty. Knowing how to conjure a rainbow on a commercial budget is an invaluable skill. Henderson puts an environmental spin on his aesthetic sense, and while he is a leader, he is not alone in this. Ever the magpie, fashion has caught on to ecology. "Le look vegetal" is popular in Paris, where earth colors and materials like fake hemp and mock plant stems are making news. In Henderson's case, the affinity to natural colors...
...When God came down to earth," a villager says, "he took one look at the Gypsies and took the next flight back." But God left a couple of things behind: the gift of magic -- black magic or white, and every rainbow shade in between -- and the curse of belief in it. Women levitate as they give birth; the veils of dead brides float in the rank breeze. Proud, loving Hatidza (Ljubica Adzovic) has the power of healing, and her grandchild Perhan (Davor Dujmovic) can do a few telekinetic tricks too. We won't even discuss -- because they come...
VINELAND by Thomas Pynchon (Little, Brown; $19.95). In his first novel since Gravity's Rainbow (1973), a major writer turns his attention to all manner of American zaniness and produces a soaring, comic and visionary tale...
...rainbow coalition of white, black, Latin American, African, Caribbean and Asian criminals who are deluging the ghettos (and the rest of America) with drugs is motivated by greed, not genocide. They seek to extract maximum profits from their sordid business -- and if some of their customers fatally overdose themselves or are gunned down in turf battles between dealers, so be it. Whatever the drug pushers' goal may be, blacks could thwart them by the simple expedient of refusing to use drugs. The question is whether they will be self-interested enough to reject deluded genocide theories and face...
...1970s and early '80s. It comes as a surprise to realize that these generations are the lost ones in Pynchon's fiction. V. (1963) and The Crying of Lot 49 (1966) anticipated but arrived just before the triumphant effulgence of television and youth culture in American life; Gravity's Rainbow was chiefly set during World War II. So Vineland amounts to Pynchon's first words on the way we have been living during the past two decades...