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...Mauroy, after all, who had announced only in February that he "would not be the man of the third devaluation of the franc," and who, during the municipal election campaign, had blandly assured voters that in the struggle for economic equilibrium, "the worst is behind us." A gifted and genial politician, Mauroy has had day-to-day control over the Socialist experiment since Mitterrand's election in 1981. Wrongly anticipating a worldwide economic upswing and applying economic theories that had by then been discredited in most industrial countries, the Socialists tried to spend their way out of recession...
...Stengel and Reporter-Researcher Elaine Dutka traveled to Virginia's hunt country to talk with Author Wouk about his TV script. It was the first interview he had given in eleven years. "Wouk is a dedicated, disciplined man and guards his time jealously," says Stengel, "but he was genial and straightforward about sharing his experiences." Adds Dutka: "He seemed to enjoy this break from the solitude of his typewriter. The two hours he had originally agreed to stretched into three." As he began supervising the cover package in New York, Senior Editor Christopher Porterfield, once a television producer himself...
...would be pure illusion to suppose that Merlin is just a genial magic show that can get by on the razzle of its star and the dazzle of its effects. The musical is said to require a weekly gross of $275,000 merely to break even, a statistic that terrifies theater insiders. Still, Henning is one of Broadway's certified miracle workers. With a se ries of pans, The Magic Show ran 4? years. He could do it yet again. If he does, it will be the neatest trick of his brief but astonishing career. ?By Stefan Kanfer
Jack and Jill trailed downstairs with him and waited while a couple of genial Cambridge cops scrutinized their bursar's cards and warned them never to get locked in again ("You take one of these guards by surprise in the night, he'll probably hit you with the first thing he sees"). One officer winked at Jack, patted him on the back a couple of times, and assured him that others had done the same thing before...
Brezhnev was his country-genial, brutal, boring. He had the face of both plodder and plotter, being something of each; a scholar's face and a doorman's, the kind one does not notice until it is in charge of things. In the West one saw him mostly in photographs: clapping solemnly at parades, his chest tiered with medals, his body like a metalwork; or embracing a world leader...