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Even though exceptional individuals such as Ford, Watson and Kroc are rare, companies continually create new heroes. The members of IBM's "Hundred Percent Club," who have met their annual sales quotas, become office stars. Likewise, the McDonald's franchisee who cooked up the idea for the fast...
Preserving that wondrous mayhem may be asking too much. The two covers on Still Life are fine, funky cuts powered by the Charlie Watts-Bill Wyman rhythm machine. Jagger reminds all of his still startling ability to transform black R & B and white honk into the Stones' own unique grinding...
Such words babble up in all corners of society, wherever anybody is ax-grinding, arm-twisting, backscratching, sweet-talking. Political blather leans sharply to words (peace, prosperity) whose moving powers outweigh exact meanings. Merchandising depends on adjectives (new, improved) that must be continually recharged with notions that entice people to...
Just nine year later, Arevalo's involution, which had made real progress in relieving the poor from grinding poverty, came to its unnatural end. The CIA, with the full support of President Eisenhower, deposed Arevalo's successor Jacob Arbenz and installed a military government. Since that day, Roosevelt's freedom...
Yes, and that's the big problem Davis's short stories make dandy reading he has a tine eye for detail, especially the little ties of behavior that signal long term, grinding animosity--but Hometown may not add up to anything more than a bundle of interesting observations. It's...