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...close to genius: the management method he has imposed on ITT disciplines and tames territorial chieftains who might otherwise rebel and enables him to check the performance of a widely-almost wildly-diversified company. In other ways Geneen is a gambler on a monumental scale. Sampson neglects this facet of Geneen, although he does show that when Geneen acquired Hartford Insurance he knew full well that the antitrust division of the Justice Department would oppose him. In short, Sampson concludes, Geneen was under the utmost compulsion to try to change the trustbusters' collective mind...
...cattle ranch, and Nixon like a business. Truman was our last great President. He ran the country the way it should be run-like a Missouri mule." That view would hardly bring agreement from businessmen (most of whom are appalled by Watergate) or from mules, but it reflects a facet of the 1973 campus mood...
...their adolescence. The way De Palma handles it, it's a clever idea, and it allows him to include a clever documentary film within the film which he made with the assistance of Jay Cocks, the young film critic for Time. Unfortunately, De Palma never treats the psychological facet of the girls' unusual predicament with any more depth than the freakshow fascination of the "human interest" picture spread which Life ran a few years back and which was De Palma's inspiration for the film...
...found lesbian lover. ABC's Lawyer Owen Marshall put a girl on the witness stand in order to clear her of a charge of lesbianism. "It may just be for rating purposes," says Welby Producer David O'Connell, "but many producers feel homosexuality is a facet of life-and we should depict...
...disk jockey who is co-chief of Warner Bros. Records: "Music is participatory now. You've got a generation buying it that has lived through ten years of craziness and crisis. The music has reflected every facet of that period." He adds: "Those kids need those albums. You can't separate it from their lives." Publicist Stromberg recalls the incident of a tearful, angry teen-ager screaming at a cop who had just ejected him from a Rolling Stones concert in Boston for scuffling. "You have no idea, no idea at all," shouted the teenager, "what this concert means...