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...Dunster Street is a small lead frame with the stained glass image of a carrot and stick superimposed upon a square Crimson H. The office itself is a brown study of spartan furnshings and dusky bookishness. The start Harvard armchairs, the large and brooding rug, the huge oak-slab desk spattered with papers, the shelves of volumes bound in lusterless red--all bear the bloodless mark of a collection that has had to depend for its light on a tiny ration of western sun that filters past the Institute of Politics and through the great window. Finally, there...
Only One Pitch Left. In Yanks, Duke Bronkowski (Tony Lo Bianco) is on the mound, and he has shuddering intimations of mortality on that slab. He talks to himself continuously in an erratic monologue that is both manic and depressive: "Here I am 39 years old, and my hero is still Holden Caulfield." At the top of the seventh inning, the Duke is working on a no-hitter, but he has only one pitch left in his eroded repertory: a low slider. As he muses, in Archie Bunker fashion, on how much he detests the ethnic and racial back grounds...
Interested in a $4,600 coffee table made from two Rolls-Royce radiator grilles and a slab of stainless steel? Or maybe a $1,380 three-seater sofa with a tubular frame? The Art Deco creations and their superstar price tags are the work of a London furniture company co-owned by ex-Beatle Ringo Starr and Designer Robin Cruikshank. "I had the conventional art-school training, but he comes up with some very unusual ideas," says Cruikshank of his partner. Among Starr's contributions: a doughnut-shaped fireplace and a table designed to look like a flower with...
Brutal Naturalism. If Garcia Marquez is Latin America's Faulkner, Peru's Mario Vargas Llosa is aesthetically, if not stylistically, its Dreiser. His first novel, The City of the Dogs, was a brutal slab of naturalism about life and violent death at a Peruvian military school for problem youth-a place not unlike the institution Vargas Llosa attended in the early 1950s. Officials at the school ensured the author a wide readership and international attention by publicly burning 1,000 copies of his book...
Vachon does not look as if he could get in the way of a cream puff, let alone a rock-hard slab of rubber rocketing toward him at 100 m.p.h. or more. At 5 ft. 7 in., 160 Ibs., he is one of the smallest goalies in the league; he has neither the reach nor the muscle that helps such players as Montreal's Ken Dryden deflect shots with shoulders and legs. But Vachon makes up for his lack of size with one of the surest, fastest gloves in the game-and an extra dose of daring that gets...