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...Cardin suit-stood guard at the door to Kissinger's bedroom. Early in the week, motorcycle-borne photographers had tracked the negotiators' limousines in a wild cross-country pursuit to their secret meeting place in the Paris exurb of Gif-sur-Yvette: a two-story, tile-roofed villa. A gallery of photographers and TV cameramen gathered on ladders, fence posts and nearby rooftops in hopes of finding out what was being said inside the villa...
...Kooning's sculptures admittedly look regressive. They evoke memories of the European Expressionism of the 1950s-Dubuffet's turnip men and the familiar postwar imagery of the human figure as disaster area. Thus Figure XII, 1970, lying with outflung arms on a bronze-cast roof tile, obscurely suggests the traditional image of crucifixion even though it could just as easily be a sunbather. De Kooning's new work is a matter of symptom, rather than code; its contortions carry less meaning than one is apt to suppose...
...middle of his brilliant and enigmatic second novel, James Park Sloan invents the "subway syndrome." Its victims are those overeducated drunks encountered in the subways late at night, frantically spitting out manic monologues at the tile walls. Ex-lawyers, ex-teachers, even ex-psychiatrists (who knows?), these gray-stubbled ruins with burning eyes represent, Sloan suggests, "the human psyche driven underground ... by a sense of helplessness in the face of an overwhelming body of human knowledge, subtly divided and incomprehensible to any single man." They don't know-they can't know-The Answer, and that knowledge...
...shower wasn't working right, I would go over to tell him, picking my way carefully among squealing children and slippery spots. It was impossible to go at more than a snail's pace, because the floors were always wet and a bit slimy, made of smooth red tile. The walls sweated from the humid air, and on crowded days you couldn't even see from one end of the pool to the other for all the steam...
...less than two years, Breguet has put together a company, retaining more than half of the stock himself, that has revenues of $16 million and profits of $2.5 million. His chief product is a five-bedroom brick and tile-roof house, containing wall-to-wall carpets, a fully equipped kitchen and a wine cave. Price, including a quarter-acre lot: $50,000. Late last year Breguet completed a 350-house development. At present he has three subdivisions under construction and another three on the planning boards, totaling 2,050 homes...