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From H.G. Wells' The Invisible Man to Topper, unseen characters have terrorized towns and caused comic chaos. The tradition now moves into the business world with a much touted and timely new book: Memoirs of an Invisible Man, the first novel by Harry F. Saint, a New York City real estate investor. The central character of Memoirs, a securities analyst named Nick Halloway, becomes the ultimate inside trader when a botched demonstration of an exotic new technology makes him transparent. He slips into the offices of corporate raiders, overhears their takeover plans and makes a fortune by telephoning orders...
...Author Saint, 45, who got an advance of $5,000 and wrote the book long before the Ivan Boesky insider-trading scandal broke, is enjoying a sudden run-up in his literary stock: book-club, foreign-publication and film rights for Memoirs have brought him about $2.5 million, though the Atheneum edition will not appear until April. Says Saint, whose business ventures were never so profitable: "I had always mistakenly assumed that writing didn...
...only one pushing pouf this year. Ungaro, Cardin and Lagerfeld, among others, showed versions of the bubble. (Saint Laurent, who was blowing fashionable bubbles when Lacroix was in his grandmother's attic, showed an exquisite but conventional collection.) But not only did Lacroix pioneer the new silhouette, he is ineffably its presiding spirit...
There is something intimate about a Lacroix presentation, a revelation of taste and spirit that goes beyond the usual limits of professionalism. In fact, compared with Saint Laurent's aesthetic poise or Lagerfeld's streamlined efficiency, Lacroix's enthusiasm looks not quite grown-up, as if he were engaged in a kind of dress-up game. "I do play at being a couturier," he ! acknowledges with a sigh...
...Kidney Stones? Who Ya Gotta Call . . . Stonebusters!" With that jarring punch line, Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, Calif., is touting its newly acquired lithotripter, a device that disintegrates kidney stones with shock waves...