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...station owners, short-order hamburger corporations, and gambling joints and not, as Venturi would like us to believe, the desires of the great middle class that have produced such a blighted landscape. It is not difficult to agree that places like Park Avenue with its multitude of sleek skyscrapers or the plaza at City Hall need a greater sense of vitality and human scale. However, Venturi looks forward to complete self-abasement in architecture. In the end perhaps he belongs in the same category as those high-class New Yorkers who hurried to fill their collections with...
Intimations of mortality were apparent on the first leg of the trip, a flight from Madrid to Rome for a three-day stopover. Perón, accompanied by his third wife Isabel, several bodyguards and a secretary, boarded a sleek Mystère-20 executive jet emblazoned with the Argentine colors. The plane was said to have been donated by a German industrialist in Madrid...
...around the twin legends of the deposed dictator and his dead second wife Eva, whom the Argentine descamisados (shirtless ones) have enshrined as a secular saint. "Perón y Evita," are an enduring political force in Argentina. Walls in Buenos Aires are plastered with fresh posters of a sleek and inspiring Evita Perón, "flag bearer of the workers...
...sounds like something thought up by Stanley Kubrick for the movie 2001. The silent central control room houses giant twin computers that send dozens of sleek, 80-m.p.h. silvery aluminum passenger trains slicking sibilantly into stations at intervals as close as 90 seconds. Each train has only one blue-jumpsuit-clad attendant, and he allows computers to run the controls except in the event of an emergency. Even tickets are sold (in amounts up to $20) by machine. The buyer inserts coins or bills; after an electronic eye scans them, the machine gives forth a credit-card-sized ticket. Thereafter...
...Italian Girls" takes a fragment from "Every Picture Tells a Story," and enlarges upon it. It is the story of a brief encounter with a rich, and understanding, Italian girl. These are Stewart's kind of women, passionate, sleek, and intelligent enough to know an incorrigible wanderer when they...