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...comedown for the flashy, fastidious man who likes driving his black Mercedes 450 SL, sampling the delicately prepared pastas at little-known Italian restaurants, and playing the courtly gentleman in his double-breasted $1,800 suits. At 45, Gotti -- his once lean figure having become stocky but his imperious gaze just as chilling -- is a mixture of the old and new Mafia styles. Like the traditional mobsters, he does not flinch at the promiscuous use of violence; informers report he has a temper of titanic proportions. But unlike the aging leadership, Gotti seems to revel in his own notoriety...
...arrived. In nearly any job in which computer terminals are a tool for workers, and that is a lot of jobs in today's economy, the machines now have the capability of monitoring an employee's performance. Result: millions of computer users are toiling under the relentless gaze of electronic supervision. In thousands of U.S. offices, stores and factories, workers who once could get away with goofing around can be seen hustling through their tasks as though the bosses were watching them every minute...
...wonders of the East! The household goddesses that gaze down from every other wall and stall in Chiang Mai and Mandalay are the very picture of mysterious beauty. Their girlish tresses are dark and lustrous, their complexions delicately olive, their looks a spicy blend of innocence and experience. And the names of these exotic sirens are . . . Phoebe Cates and Jennifer Beals. From the go-slow huts of socialist Burma to the go-go bars of socializing Bangkok, the hands-down pinups of Southeast Asia are the Yale flashdancer with exactly two movies to her credit and the pouting young starlet...
Disney had, of course, savored that triumph long before Jim Bakker was born. And having tasted success with Disneyland in California, he looked for a larger playground. His gaze fell on central Florida. Twenty years ago, the region was not much more than scrubland, orange groves, gas stations and $5-a- night motels. It was a place vacationers drove through, as quickly as possible, on their way to Miami or the Gulf Coast. But just before his death in 1966, the Man with the Mouse had bought, secretly and at the fire-sale price of roughly $200 an acre...
...community. Lately, however, they have begun raising problems for the press as well. In covering spy cases, the media face a delicate dilemma: How much can they report about the secrets involved without further harming U.S. security? Two news organizations grappled with that question last week under the hostile gaze of CIA Director William Casey...