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...Store managers ordered goods in a haphazard way and sometimes ignored merchandising strategies planned at headquarters. Telling cut costs and raised sales by imposing discipline and direction from the Sears Tower in Chicago. To add spark to the company, he eased out complacent old-line executives and appointed younger, fresher lieutenants to key positions. Says Telling: "It was very lonely. What I did had to be done, but I knew I wouldn't be very popular...
...twelve national titles. Like most of the veterans, she has survived a low period in which training and competition made no sense. Now, entered in a single race, the 200-meter freestyle, she finished second behind Teammate Mary Wayte, 19, only a year younger but a generation fresher, since she is a postboycott team member. Afterward Woodhead was radiant, satisfied. Mary T. Meagher, an elderly 19, is satisfied too, and she should be. As a 15-year-old she was favored to win both butterflies at Moscow. Instead she hit her peak a year later, setting a 100-meter mark...
Other grace notes on the "best" New York has to offer are contributed by old hands such as Jimmy Breslin, Beverly Sills and Walter Cronkite. But the bulk of the text is prepared by local experts and visiting writers who often have a fresher eye for detail than most natives. In every section, one guiding spirit can be detected: Wurman's childhood hero, Paul Klee. He explains, "Klee's paintings had a shorthand that described action, feeling, color, mood. They were not about painting but communication and visual literacy." The overall technique could be a model for future...
...vigor of the book lies not in this intractable couple but in the hardy supporting cast. Senator Harry Victor barely appears, but Billy Dillon, his aide and campaign manager, and Frances Landau the most dedicated and humorless of his female followers, are dead-on figures of political fun, far fresher than the stock characters that people most political fiction...
Perhaps all this was inevitable: those existential props, the Man Between and the Border, need a fresher approach than laconic narrative, no matter how charged with significance. Hemenway's best passages remain celebrations of the ordinary: meals, lovemaking, conversations with friends. For him, as for so many contemporary American writers, home is where the art is. -By Stefan Kanfer