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...century painting all over Europe. This one shows the painting that influenced him when he was growing up--and the visual pedantry he had to contend with. Except for Lotto, Tintoretto and Bassano, and some beautiful works by Annibale Carracci, Adam Elsheimer and Guido Reni, most of this is deadwood and of interest mainly to specialists. Moreover, the climactic efforts of Caravaggio's career, like the Beheading of St. John the Baptist in Malta (which must be the most sublimely concrete work of the tragic imagination painted between the death of Michelangelo and the maturity of Rembrandt), are not here...
...seller is the A-Hunk-a-Day Desk Calendar, which bears the subtitle Aren't You Glad It's Leap Year? The Buzzword-a-Day calendar, written by the authors of The Official MBA Handbook, gets the year off to a ruthless start by defining deadwood as "Anyone in your company who is more senior than you are." The Computer Desk Diary marks high-tech anniversaries like the date of Apple Computer's founding (Jan. 3). Jane Fonda's Year of Fitness and Health datebook provides recipes and exercise tips that focus on a different part...
...devote all his time to studying for his third try at the bar. Kennedy spent much of the summer in Rapid City and the surrounding Black Hills. He has a good friend there named Bill Walsh, a onetime Roman Catholic priest and part owner of a hotel in Deadwood. The two of them would run several miles a day, go swimming and hike through the hills. Walsh claimed last week that his friend was heading to Rapid City to seek his aid in kicking the habit when he overdosed on the plane. Said Walsh: "Bobby made the commitment to straighten...
...drawback to offering resignation or early-retirement bonuses is that the company cannot control which workers choose to leave. Talented employees may go because they feel certain of finding other jobs, while deadwood workers, with no other employment options, may hang on. Polaroid, for example, suffered an unintended loss last May from its early-retirement plan. Richard Young, 56, who was Polaroid's $210,000-a-year director of worldwide marketing, "retired" with a hefty pension and later became president of Houghton Mifflin, the book publishers, at a slightly lower salary...
Bringing with him a reputation as a no-nonsense executive in previous senior-management positions at Ford and Xerox, McCardell at first did well, pruning corporate deadwood, tightening the budget, scrapping unprofitable products and boosting research and development. But his efforts to cut costs still further got him into a losing fight over work-rule changes with the company's unionized workers, most of whom are members of the United Auto Workers. This led to a costly six-month-long strike in 1979 that sent management-labor relations into a tailspin...