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Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci is the king of street smarts. A seventh grade dropout who speaks four languages, he has parlayed his flair for dramatics into a 22-year city council career, with a unique combination of New Deal-type liberalism and old-fashioned, neighborhood politics. Though he has not lost a race since he was first elected to the school committee in 1951 (when he says he "beat the pants off of Professor Raubough of Harvard"), Vellucci's fortunes, unbuffered by formal alliances or organizations, have never been secure. In 1975 he finished eighth in a nine-seat race...
Costumes are appropriately early '60s-ish. The choreography, done by Patty Woo, lacks flair in the opening scene, but picks up for the musical numbers, which are staged with wit and aplomb, and the sprawling deaths of Roy and Larsen are limericks, if not poetry, in motion...
Mazo does so with particular flair. Without being too gossipy, his brash, kaleidoscopic view of the NYCB's Spring 1973 season is as thorough as a documentary. Mazo captured what would never have been spoken before a camera. His style is chatty: George Balanchine, founder and ballet master of the Company and probably the world's finest choreographer, is "Mr.B.", after the fashion of the dancers; choreographer Jerome Robbins ("the resident monster") is "Jerry...
...partner in the company. DRI was not the first firm to market econometric forecasts; Lawrence Klein, who developed an econometric model of the U.S. economy shortly after World War II, has been selling forecasts from his famous Wharton School model for five years longer. But Eckstein's marketing flair and his computer time-sharing innovation have made DRI by far the biggest in the field. The most reliable performance rating of the prophets is made by Economist Stephen McNees of the Boston Federal Reserve Bank, who concludes that the three computerized econometric data firms - DRI, Wharton and Chase Econometrics...
...natural competitiveness and daring is best suiting to run the corporate monoliths in an increasingly faster-paced, constantly changing society. Playing with both people and technology, the Gamesman combines the attributes of the other types but infuses them all with a gambler's nerve and a yachtman's strategic flair. Like the proper British fox-hunter, though, he insists through it all that he's only in it for the sport, old chap, and of course we won't skin him when the hunt is over...