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...MASK. Director Peter Bogdanovich musters up all the originality of the average Hallmark card Bogdanovich drenches the tragic life story of facially disfigured outcast Rocky Dennis with more sugar than the family size package of Cocoa Crispies, making John Hurt's Elephant Man look like the Wild Coyote by comparison. Climcal direction and Monday Night at the Movies screenwriting damn Mask into an abyss of sloppiness and unprofessionalism from which it is redeemed only by Eric Stoltz's tour-deforce in the title role and superb performances by Cher as Rocky's wackedout but tenderhearted Mom and Sam Elliott...
...hallmark of Capital Cities' management style is de-centralization. Says James Burke, 60, chairman of Johnson & Johnson and a director on Capital Cities' board: "Murph's friends say he delegates to the point of abdication." Notes Cary Reich, executive editor of Institutional Investor: "Except for once, nobody from Cap Cities has ever set foot in our offices...
...have long been abandoned. A Washington writer scored by praising a woman's "Wagnerian good looks," which is far more polite than saying she is not bad looking for a massive Brunnhilde. The disinfecting compliment is particularly deft. As all practitioners know, a corrective lurch toward balance is the hallmark of good journalese. After all, journalism is a crucially important field that attracts high-minded, multitalented professionals, arguably the finest in the land...
Versatility has been another hallmark of the freshmen, who have marvel from position to position as Cleary news different combinations, looking for matchings that click...
...order to report to his office inevitably strikes dread in the recipient, even a Deputy Foreign Minister. Impatience rather than vindictiveness is Gromyko's hallmark in dealing with those who rank beneath him. That is typical of top Soviet bureaucrats. They are rude to their underlings to demonstrate their own importance. Gromyko will often call a meeting of his three or four ranking assistants and, if he is in a bad mood, vilify them as "dolts" or "schoolboys" who are "not fit to work in the Foreign Ministry." A report with a few minor errors or a document submitted late...