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...stage." He often suggested that he enjoyed special spiritual grace, and some fans concluded he had faith- healing powers. But when he died at home last week after a brief hospitalization, he was best known as a synonym for glorious excess. After an aborted attempt in 1958 at a button-down, close-cropped, low-key look, Liberace came to understand that in the heartland where he found his audiences, less remained less and only more was more...
Thoroughly unpretentious, Bush is touchy about even the symbols of elitism. His reaction to being called preppie was to stop wearing button-down shirts and striped ties. No matter how Bush modifies the costume, his Eastern roots show clearly. He has a duke's air of natural infallibility. Hence, while paid political operators are viewed strictly as hired help, volunteers win Bush's high admiration...
Indeed, the Harvard Business School, M.B.A.s and "bean counters" are used almost interchangeably as synonyms for button-down corporate caution. Iacocca, born and raised in Allentown, Pa., regards the risk taking of his Italian-born father as the way to do business. In the 1920s and '30s, Nicola Iacocca made and lost and remade rather glamorous small fortunes: hot dogs, movie theaters, rental cars. Young Lido, a monkish boy denied military service in World War II (4-F because of a childhood case of rheumatic fever), took an engineering degree from Lehigh University (B+) and then spent a year...
...good-ole-boy phrases like "that dog won't hunt" or "it's better than a poke in the eye with a stick," Pickens is every inch the businessman. In place of the pointed boots and Stetson hats that many independent oilmen wear, he favors sober gray suits, button-down shirts and striped ties. He rarely smiles, but when he does, the grin spreads slowly, almost reluctantly, across his face. Says a friend: "He deals with everyone, from Senators to bank presidents, as if he's telling them fishing stories." Yet he can be flint hard. Told of a worker...
...surprise of Murder, She Wrote is that, for all the echoes of Agatha Christie, Lansbury is not playing Miss Marple; the irony of Crazy Like a Fox is that Jack Warden is. As a gruffly eccentric middle-aged private eye, he delights in getting his son, a button-down lawyer played by John Rubinstein, involved in oddball cases. Crazy Like a Fox is one of those shows where the car chases are accompanied by jaunty music, as if to say it's all in fun. With some clever plots and a pair of appealing stars, it frequently...