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...where he was president, to become chief executive officer. He found it difficult to adjust to the industry's fast pace and gained a reputation in the company for being aloof and ineffective. The firm's lack of basic financial controls or enough experienced managers finally proved fatal...
...FATAL VISION by Joe McGinniss...
...Macbeth, the "fatal vision" of a dagger leads on to murder and blood-soaked revenge. Author Joe McGinniss (The Selling of the President 1968, Going to Extremes), uses the image for his chilling investigation of three atrocious deaths that occurred more than a decade ago. But the use of the quote is a bit askew. The Thane of Glamis killed for ambition; Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald, outwardly an all-American winner, brutally murdered his wife and small daughters for reasons that remain elusive...
...Fatal Vision, heavy with transcripts and letters, is a haunting, obsessive resurrection of crime and punishment, '70s style. But McGinniss titillates the reader with revelations he fails to amplify. Was MacDonald addicted to Eskatrol, a psychotropic diet drug? Is he a borderline homosexual, tormented by confused sexual identity? Or is he an aberrant symbol of the "me" generation gone amuck? The answers may never be known, but the carnage remains. Readers may stay in step with the inconclusive author: "I have followed the tangled paths as far as possible and they have led me to places where...
...tiara is never worn in a hotel, only at parties arranged in private houses or when royal ladies are present." They think longingly of the right public school, the right regiment, the right club (Whites, if possible, or Boodles, or Pratt's, if you must). They dread the fatal slip, the moment when they might, for example, eat asparagus with knife and fork: Use your fingers, idiot...