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...think maybe they chew tobacco too?) and the sexy (You should see them little skirts fly up when they slide!). But there were a lot of frustrated tomboys out there who loved the game and were good at it, and who were willing to brave male haw-hawing (and genteel feminine disapproval) in order to strut their skills...
...really a visionary," says Arthur Levitt Jr., former head of the American Stock Exchange and a Guggenheim board member. "But he's breaking some eggs in the art community." Krens' business-school jargon and management style offend many in the traditionally genteel, nonprofit world of museums. Says Hilton Kramer, editor of the New Criterion, a monthly arts review: "Krens has so far proven himself to be a complete disaster. His conception of a museum is all about expansion. He's a perfect example of what happens to a major cultural institution when it is given over to a bureaucrat...
Wilder has seen this movie before. From the time he emerged from the genteel poverty of Richmond's Church Hill section, through a career as a flamboyant criminal lawyer and real estate investor that made him rich, during 22 contentious years in politics, Wilder, 60, has dealt repeatedly with rejection. Defying the Establishment, whether white or black, is his vocation. "I don't need the anointers," he says. "I don't need the appointers. Nor do I need the laying on of hands...
Long known as a genteel giant, Hill & Knowlton rarely had to hunt for clients. They simply came knocking and stayed aboard for decades, as did the firm's employees. That atmosphere changed when Dilenschneider took charge in 1986 and began to buy up 10 smaller companies. Revenues rose from $77 million in 1985 to $197 million last year. Dilenschneider's goal was to supplant the British firm Shandwick (1990 revenues: $211 million) as the world's largest p.r. firm by creating a one-stop supermarket for clients seeking everything from lobbying and management consulting to research, direct-mail campaigns...
...produce rumors of an imminent coup. In Kuwait the disenchanted sent a polite letter up the chain of command, asking for an audience with the Prime Minister. Seven weeks later, they have still received no response, so most stay home passively and grow beards -- an officer corps on a genteel sit-down strike. "A coup, a civil war?" laughs an air-force officer whose Hawk missile antiaircraft battery shot down four Iraqi jet fighters on the day of the invasion. "We're all too comfortable economically to even think of revolution. Maybe if we had a hint at what might...