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Indeed, the new dean is exuberant, witty and at ease in the corner office of University Hall. After only two months at the Faculty helm, Knowles has developed quite a reputation: his colleagues and associates say he never fails to charm entire meetings with a clever quip or humorous tale...
...Milan, Italy's irrepressible gadfly Franco Moschino points out that the Tois and the Lagerfelds are Johnny-come-latelies. Moschino has used denim for years in his clever, occasionally rude collections. He sells to royalty and rock stars -- in fact, to anyone who is secure enough or desperate enough to want to stand out. Right now he is making shirts with looped embroidery across the chest. "I use denim as a symbol of our times," says Moschino, "in the same way that Andy Warhol, in his Pop Art, used wartime camouflage painted over faces, to give them a contemporary impression...
Sayles' works have a distinctive recipe: a thinly plotted story, complex characters and clever dialogue steeped in the author's characteristic 1960s- style concern for outsiders and underdogs. Politics, however, never gets in the way of getting things done. Thus Wynn Himes, the high-minded black councilman in City of Hope, reluctantly plays the down-and-dirty game of political hardball in order to gain power for his black constituents. "Basically," says Sayles, "I'm for whatever makes people's lives better and against what doesn...
...disturbed by the quality of Madison Avenue's work during the past year that in March it declined to award its vaunted "Agency of the Year" prize for the first time since it began the practice in 1973. Said the editors: "While there was a goodly amount of clever recycling around, conceptual innovations were in short supply." Ad Age concluded, probably correctly, that the main reason for the relative dullness of recent work by agencies was that clients had been harassing them so much during a tough business cycle. The good news: as the economy begins to improve, both clients...
...economy increasingly based on information and technology, ideas and creativity often embody most of a company's wealth. That is why innovations are being patented, trademarked and copyrighted in record numbers. It is also why today's clever thief doesn't rob banks, many of which are broke anyway; he makes unauthorized copies of Kevin Costner's latest film, sells bogus Cartier watches and steals the formula for Merck's newest pharmaceutical. That's where the money...