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M.D.C.'s Mizel was even more active in fund raising. Besides organizing the Denver luncheon for President Reagan, he directed a steady stream of dollars to state and national politicians, including Colorado Governor Roy Romer, a Democrat. Lawyer Brownstein, nicknamed Mr. Fixit, was a top Democratic rainmaker who arranged a Denver fund raiser in 1987 for Michigan Senator Don Riegle; Riegle is one of the Senators called the Keating Five for having received sizable contributions from the scandal-tarred head of Lincoln Savings. Of $37,000 raised for Riegle, $10,000 came from 16 people connected to Silverado and M.D.C...
...weakest entry. It occasionally says something mildly amusing about the overprivileged children of New York & City's rich and famous. But Coppola and his co-writer, who happens to be his 17-year-old daughter Sofia, cannot settle on a tone for their overplotted yarn of a Junior Ms. Fixit, working simultaneously on the cases of a poor little rich boy and her parents' wavering marriage. The Coppola team tries satire and sentiment, but the story is not so much concluded as abandoned in a muddled rush. Give it a 5.5, and be grateful for the 10.0s on either...
...short to start a Silky Sullivan finish. "We think we're seeing movement that won't show up for a while in the national polls," says one. "But you need ice water in your veins for the next couple of weeks." Robert Strauss, the Democrats' Mr. Fixit, who heads a council of party elders advising Mondale, insists, "It's the seventh-inning stretch, not the top of the ninth...
Once known as the "Mr. Fixit" of Australia's stormy industrial relations, Hawke has emerged as something of a miracle worker in the Labor Party. But it is one thing to call for "national reconciliation, national recovery, national reconstruction," and quite another to deliver. The engaging but untested new Prime Minister now has his chance...
...grievances to public attention and create pressure for quick redresses. Nearly every paper across the country today has a consumer advocacy column, many with follow-up services where the paper calls up the offenders and publishes the results along with the original grievance letter. The Philadelphia Bulletin's "Mr. Fixit" column has been intimidating businesses and inspiring readers for years, and makes for some interesting, if occasionally bizarre, breakfast table reading...