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Stanley Elkin is one of the perennial bridesmaids of American fiction. Part of the problem is that the styles Elkin employs are beginning to show their age. His prose is creased by the crow's-feet of '50s black humor, it shows the slight stoop of Jewish realism and the weird droop of the surreal as well. There is no denying, though, that when Elkin puts them together-as he did in Boswell, A Bad Man, The Dick Gibson Show and now The Franchiser-the results are fresh...
...Udall would be the winner by "a modest margin." That left CBS the lone TV network holdout. CBS steadfastly refused to concede anything except that the race was "extremely close" until 1:30 a.m., when it became clear that Carter had eked out a victory and Walter Cronkite could crow, "Some other networks predicted that Udall would win [and] we did not predict that here...
...Charles River winds its sleepy, polluted way from Echo Lake in Hopkinton through 25 municipalities, over 21 dams, past factories, groves, and meadows to Boston Inner Harbor. It takes the Charles eighty miles to cover what an average crow could do in thirty...
That success earned Portman even more ambitious jobs. In San Francisco, he joined with Chase Manhattan Bank Chairman David Rockefeller, Dallas Developer Trammell Crow and the Prudential Investment Corp. to build Embarcadero Center, often called "Rockefeller Center West"-an 8.5-acre, $200 million office, apartment and hotel project. In Detroit, Henry Ford II called on Portman to save the city's dying downtown by designing the 32-acre, $200 million Renaissance Center...
...good it is compared to San Clemente crow...