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...Knudsen company helped create the very fabric of America by building such megastructures as the Hoover Dam, the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge and the Trans-Alaska pipeline. By last week, however, the 83-year-old construction firm, based in Boise, Idaho, was struggling to survive a devastating corporate crackup. Just six weeks after directors ousted the charismatic William Agee as chairman and chief executive officer, the company was frantically seeking $125 million in new bank loans needed by the end of this week to avert a bankruptcy filing. And with losses mounting, shareholders suing and directors resigning, the stock...
...costumes are, in the Pudding tradition, wonderfully creative and good for some of the shows biggest laughs. Willie Everstop wears a Barn Aid t-shirt and Stan Byeme's cowboy getup is a crackup...
...more 'Look at him' stuff from the others. But instead they've all been helping me. 'Look out for this bump.' 'Make sure you get low there.' " El Reedy was sent off last in the downhill. "They are worried about a crackup from behind," he smiled. He wiped out more spectacularly than ever, but climbed back up on his skis wonderfully to finish-some two minutes behind Bill Johnson. "I'll try again in 1988," El Reedy promised. "The Olympics brings people together. It's a short-term peace...
United States, however, is much more than a vanishing block of ice. Anderson's theme is nothing less than the dehumanizing crackup of modern society, and she treats it with an elaborate structure of symbols and images. Airplanes are a metaphor for physical risk (she was in a plane crash once), weightlessness and enforced camaraderie; dogs become a symbol of nature in harmonious, trusting alliance with humanity; the telephone is used both as an instrument of impersonal communication and the conveyor of whispered intimacies. Although there is no story line, Anderson strings her ideas together with deft, homey wordplay...
Perkins work with Fitzgerald and Wolfe forms the most interesting part of Berg's book. Tales of Fitzgerald's crackup are many, but Berg's picture of Perkins' desparate attempts to save Fitzgerald from his own insecurity is compelling and memorable. And Berg will no doubt find a place for himself among historians of literature for his work on the friendship and eventual estrangement of Perkins and Wolfe--the fiery, romantic writer upon whom Perkins staked much of its reputation...