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...adventures but the story of his style." With Lax providing a sympathetic ear, Allen tells that story in piquant detail, from his early days writing one-liners for gossip columnists, through his stand-up comedy routines in clubs and on TV, to his present lonely eminence as the crafter of a distinctive, often distinguished body of films...
Perhaps Ted Sorensen, with his trademark verb-first, ask-not formulations, might rival Noonan as the best White House word crafter of the television age. But Sorensen writing for John Kennedy or, for that matter, Noonan composing soaring scripts for Reagan's second term had it easy. Bush was an infinitely greater challenge. In writing his 1988 G.O.P. Convention address, Noonan miraculously transformed the Bush of the stumbling syntax and clotted catch- phrases into a "quiet" leader sensitive enough to glimpse "a thousand points of light" but strong enough to say flatly, "Read my lips: no new taxes...
...dissent, Bobby Kennedy's glowing visions so tragically destroyed), cannot be dismissed. His controversial assessment of Johnson is embedded in the longer narrative of Goodwin's journey into power and out again. The book is a velvety recitation of being at the center but never of it, the brilliant crafter of ideas and words, too arrogant and defiant to last in any job very long but always sought by those scaling the heights. A lawyer by training, Goodwin read books on psychiatry and recounted the episodes of his diary to friends who were psychiatrists. Goodwin claims that another Johnson aide...
Milestones' current crafter is Sara Collins Medina, a staff writer for the past 3½ years. She is assisted by Reporter-Researcher Linda Young. Says Medina: "The process of sifting out an individual's achievements involves assimilating vast amounts of material, then compacting it to the density of poetry. The column also provides the world's most comprehensive education in the creative use of the semicolon...
Lucrative business, this, largely because there is almost no overhead, no rent, and, usually, no taxes. New York police estimate that a general-merchandise peddler makes an average of $15,000 a year; some boast of taking in $1,000 a day. Lobsang Khendup, 46, an enterprising wood-crafter in San Francisco, supports a wife and three sons on annual street sales of $22,000. "What better job is there?" asks Ellie Cohen, 29, who sells her own home-baked goods in Miami in the whiter and in Portsmouth, N.H., in the summer. " work for myself. If I get tired...