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...camera trickery. He works from arresting angles, all but caressing the decor of a world made to order for the filthy rich. Fond of polished surfaces, he dotes on reflections in mirrors, sunglasses, brandy snifters. But the validity of Eva lies in Moreau's accomplished bitchery. As a sleek alley cat commuting at her whim between Venice and Rome, she slinks from warm beds to warm baths, purring over her furs and silks and blues records with such hypnotic self-absorption that even a silly role begins to seem not just interesting but absolutely essential to watch...
...from a 1960 oil of symbolic doves back to a small work of 1898, when the artist still signed his name P. Ruiz Picasso. Next is Picasso's first oil done in Paris, Le Moulin de la Galette, a muted 1900 Lautrecian cabaretscape, gaslit with top hats as sleek and glassy as carafes of absinthe. Included, almost as a talisman, is the 1905 painting of Two Harlequins, one of the few survivors of the Thannhauser Paris collection...
Backfire. The star of this sleek French melodrama is a Triumph sports convertible. Shipped from Barcelona to Beirut, the car gets past customs but has difficulty getting out of town. Sluggish performance. "I can scarcely shift into high," complains the man at the wheel. The svelte blonde smuggler at his side smiles and tells him why. The Triumph has a $300,000 paint job. Under a surface coat of white, its body is gilded with 300 kilos of solid gold...
...Ivans" dived lowest over West Berlin's sleek Congress Hall, nicknamed "the pregnant oyster," where West Germany's Bundestag was sitting in a one-day symbolic session. With the acquiescence of the three Western allies that still retain occupation rights in the city, the session had been convened-in defiance of Soviet wishes-to reaffirm West Germany's determination that Berlin will one day be the capital of a reunited Germany...
...company is the British partner on the Anglo-French Concorde supersonic plane, which has been hit by heavy development costs and frequent controversy. In the short-range jet field, it got a head start with its sleek BAC OneEleven, of which it has sold 77, including 55 to U.S. lines. But the competition is overtaking the BAC One-Eleven. Douglas has sold 116 comparable DC-9s, including two last week to Australia's Ansett Airways. While Boeing has sold only 21 of its 737s, all were to West Germany's Lufthansa-an order that British Aircraft counted heavily...