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...Tokyo, he produced one of the marvels of modern construction. A vast, low building on a symmetrical plan, it was Wright's first ambitious use of the cantilever principle, which allowed him to rest each concrete floor slab on a central support, like a tray on a waiter's fingers. He roofed the building with light copper sheathing, made the centre of gravity low as a ship's. And like a ship, the Imperial was made to float. Instead of sinking deep piers to bedrock, the architect rested his building on hundreds of slender, pointed...
...after having invited you to lunch, fails to appear. The first rule: go to the table, but do not eat or drink anything while waiting. "It looks sloppy," she says. After 20 minutes of staring at the bread sticks and playing with the matches, the executive should tip the waiter $5 or $10 and leave. Later the executive can mention the expenditure to the errant host's secretary...
...Star Model Isabella Rossellini), and arguing costs about $50 a word. So Nick LaMicela, the project's art director, has selected a quiet country road, with no palm trees to spoil the illusion of France. Somebody has found a French cowherd. Actually he is a Puerto Rican waiter, but in beret, smock and scarf, and with rouge on his round cheeks to suggest a history of drinking wine for breakfast, he looks as French as Pierre...
...troupe's latest venture--and, according to hints, probably their last for some time both legitimizes and assuages such fears True. Life Itself seems rather a broad topic to attempt visualizing. And the proximity of the eternal verities (birth, religion, contraception, and the life of a waiter) have transformed the original Python tone of genial silliness to satire. But despite these signs of maturity, the group has evidently regained its comic fire--and the comedians roll around in their capacious subject matter with every bit of the old gusto and panache...
...ferried to a New York City literary agent by Mailer, who has been down this road before. Two years ago, Mailer was promoting and urging the parole of a prison author named Jack Henry Abbott (In the Belly of the Beast), who won release but later killed a Manhattan waiter. Stratton is no Abbott. Not only does he lack Abbott's violent streak but, according to some of those who have seen Drug War, he lacks Abbott's writing skill...