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...weekend publicity drive can become hectic, and has on occasion been cut short by the winner. Salerno quoted one Playboy spokesman as saying, "We don't want to make you feel like a victim. We want you to feel like the contest winner...
Change-minded from the beginning, he made the Press a less hectic, haphazard operation. He halved the number of editions from 16 to eight, taught reporters how to compress their coverage. He cut down on violence and crime stories, hired specialists so that a "reporter would not have to be a doctor one hour, a lawyer the next, and an engineer the following." And he never stopped making changes. Only three months ago he cut the front page from eight to five columns and put in more white space for easier reading. "This newspaper does not stand still," he said...
...particular kind of isolation, through the microphone, in front of the backstage rooms, and always on the road. Demy's film is also concerned with isolation, but at the end of it you feel that you've watched a forced cinematic exercise. Lonely Boy, in a small number of hectic minutes, leaves you with feeling that this is the way it must...
...White House. The last half is arranged in chapters that discuss the development of issues--the economy, civil rights, the alliance--from the beginning to the end of the administration. These chapters leave one with two impressions: first that the process of Presidential decision-making is frequently very hectic, and second that the President, and especially the White House staff, is ordinarily very isolated...
...midst of a racking feud between Kasavubu and leftist Premier Patrice Lumumba, he had "neutralized" them both by seizing power on behalf of a "college of commissioners." But his army withdrew its full support, and Mobutu, then only 30 years old, was forced to retire after four hectic months...