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...subjects of Strombotne's painting, Yo-Yo, were easily recognizable as Pablo Picasso and Kathy (his stepdaughter since his marriage to Jacqueline). The photographs he used as models can be found in The Private World of Pablo Picasso, by David D. Duncan. The "Lolita-like" girl is Kathy, the figure for the man is, of all people, Gary Cooper, and the face of the "sinister" old man is Picasso...
...apparently innocent and light-hearted scene called Yo-Yo turns out to be quite sinister: the Lolita-like girl with the Yo-Yo flaunts her body seductively while an old man with chalk-white face and sunburned bare legs leers and chortles. In The Bath, an orange-colored woman sits by a potbellied male whose nude body has the color of death and whose face is covered with purple squiggles suggesting decay. Even Strombotne's self-portrait-an elongated figure with beard and dark glasses-seems tortured. The wrists are crossed as if waiting to be manacled; the stance...
Janitor to Vice President. Under Yo shida, Dentsu is virtually a one-man show. Oh Oni even conducts the decisive interview before any new employee from janitor to vice president is hired. He some times buys an employee a new suit or pair of shoes to make him more presentable to clients, occasionally passes out golf-club memberships to his top men. "Golf is healthier than nightclubbing," he says. "And it affords time to talk with a client...
...there is a married couple who feud by doing each other's chores-she shines his shoes, and in riposte he Duzzes her undies. Invention of this sort is too much trouble, however, and for the most part the author amuses himself with the same old verbal Yo...