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...prestigious and influential, if less lucrative, magazine and book divisions run by Donald's older brother S.I. Jr., known as Si, the shadowy Newhouse style has been supplanted by a blaze of glitz and color and, increasingly, by tumult and frenzy. In recent years scarcely a month has gone by without an uproar at one or another of what has grown to 20 U.S. and 41 non-U.S. magazines, including Vogue, Vanity Fair, the New Yorker, Details, HG and Self, every one of which has had one or more top editors ousted and design face-lifts imposed...
Tales circulate of Si Newhouse playing supereditor, objecting to the blaze of colors on a proposed magazine cover or grumbling about a choice of stories. Meetings with him can take on the character of interrogation, and they often occur at disquietingly early hours: Newhouse generally starts his office day at 4 a.m. Even the supporters among his employees -- and they are far fewer off the record than on -- describe him as exacting and occasionally fierce. One new editor was sternly rebuked after having lunch at the Four Seasons, not for going to that expensive Manhattan eating gallery but for allowing...
...prestigious magazine and book divisions, the shadowy family style has been supplanted by a blaze of glitz and color and -- increasingly -- by tumult...
...Quayle serene merely because he is vacuous, preferring drift to ideology? That view obliges one to explain how, in politics, he drifted often and early to the top. Even his friends admit that his success was not by any blaze of intellect. Says M. Stanton Evans, the ex-editor of the Indianapolis News, who helped Quayle get his first political appointment: "There is a cycle in all of his offices. When he comes in, he is underestimated -- too young, too inexperienced -- and then he surpasses people's expectations." In other words, Quayle first gets the job and then gets qualified...
Colonel Muammar Gaddafi first blamed the U.S., then Israel and finally West Germany for sabotaging the installation, which Tripoli maintains is designed to manufacture pharmaceuticals. Officials in all three countries said they did not know what happened in Rabta and suggested the blaze might have started accidentally...