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This free-enterprise spirit is already much in evidence among Moscow street artists, who are doing brisk business with a variation of the famous matryoshka dolls. The new set contains caricatures of five Communist leaders from Lenin to Gorbachev. Cost...
...that pizazz, however, is only frosting on the cake for Houston. The city is in the third year of a brisk economic recovery that is transforming the fourth largest U.S. city (pop. 1.7 million) from a freewheeling oil-and-gas town to a more broadly based cosmopolitan center. Energy still constitutes 60% of the economy, but that is down from 83% in 1981. Boasts Mayor Kathy Whitmire: "We are no longer a one-industry town...
...breathtaking master of nasty fiction (The Cement Garden), as well as a few sentimental excursions (The Child in Time), has written a blueprint for the future of the genre. The key is not in nostalgia, evoking the bleak era when real men wore raincoats, but in the brisk assumption of a '90s vantage point, leaving the author free to make all kinds of moral and social comments -- rather like choreographing the doings at an ant farm...
...fact, Sununu has emerged as Bush's most inspired choice for any senior post. Amid the bland Washington-retread Wasps with whom Bush has peopled much of his Cabinet and staff, Sununu adds both spice and balance. His brisk certainty and willingness to take bold stands complement his risk-averse boss...
Hecht was not just a cog in America's great art industry. He was a one-man cottage industry, occasionally directing his own scripts but more often writing and rewriting for hire. The filmography in William MacAdams' brisk biography of Hecht lists 143 movie projects, on 77 of which he got no screen credit. The list includes many of Hollywood's sassiest entertainments (Scarface, Twentieth Century, His Girl Friday), but neither MacAdams nor any other scholar can isolate Hecht's contribution to each of them. Only this can be said with assurance: Ben Hecht did not work on Citizen Kane...