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...INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE got between the royal blue covers of Robert B. Reich's long-awaited The Next American Frontier before those covers ever materialized. In fact, the galleys to the book were one of the hottest items in Washington, D.C. this spring as policy makers and politicians scrambled to read Dr. Reich's prescription for the ailing U.S. economy. Now the general public has finally gotten its crack at an enlightening work which urges a dramatic change of direction for the role of U.S. business, labor and government towards more advanced industries and a more flexible labor system...
...hottest argument among experts on alcoholism these days is over whether an alcoholic can ever again return to social drinking without inevitably suffering a relapse. Vaillant, who constantly repeats that alcoholism is a problem that can be described only in grays, not in black or white, says that it all depends on how sick the alcoholic is: "If you have a little bit of alcoholism, as if you have a little bit of diabetes, you can control it." But Vaillant warns, "By the time a clinician identifies a person as an alcoholic, it's almost always too late...
...similarly cynical about performance artist Laurie Anderson in an essay ostensibly about "Women Composers," he immediately casts doubt over his choice of women by stating," some artists suddenly become trendy and hot. They may sustain their recognition, of they may slip from view. At this writing, about the hottest, trendiest artist in SoHo is Laurie Anderson." Later in the essay he accomplishes the almost impossible task of negating one of his statements in the same sentence. "But her wit clearly entrances her audiences, and has helped secure her reputation. So has the very fact that she is a woman, although...
...hottest Hollywood directors know how to make thrillers, comedies, love stories, even the arrant musical. But few have chosen to dramatize what they have learned best: the secrets of power. These are the film industry's true guilty pleasures-the devilish legerdemain of dealmaking, the bending of a hundred egos to a common purpose, the fine art of humiliating an old friend-and every movie Machiavelli has his own closetful...
...Harvard hockey team was the hottest in the East going into last night's game at Northeasters. And the Crimson, winners of its previous four ECAC contests, was facing an 8-9-1 squad which had lost its last two. So Harvard won again, right...