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...mileage he could out of the announcement. First, he picked the National Press Club in Washington as a forum to give the second quarter company statement the widest possible coverage. Then, at a pre-speech reception, lacocca presided over the presentation of small bottles of artists' ink to the members of Congress who had voted 19 months ago to give Chrysler up to $1.5 billion in federal loan guarantees. On the bottles of black ink were the labels NOW BEING USED BY THE CHRYSLER CORP. Unable to resist winning a little more publicity for his products, lacocca arrived...
...evidence of this disciplined rush to perfection of technique and technology can be seen at New York's Whitney Museum of American Art in "Disney Animations and Animators." Preliminary character and background sketches, animators' roughs of entire sequences, eels (the finished ink and paint drawings that the camera photographed), even film loops in which roughs and completed films are juxtaposed-all are there. The show provides a singular insight into the painstaking work of the talented artists who competed to realize Disney's dreams...
...wonder that anybody does it. To be sure, there are those who cannot help themselves-teen-age girls, for example, or the members of the National Rifle Association (who all write the same letter), or the people with urgent messages for public figures, which are usually written in green ink on triangular Kleenex. These are the extreme compulsives. But there are many calmer citizens, as well, who cannot bear to leave the stationery stationary, and thus get themselves into deep trouble. President Reagan's son Mike was among these recently when he wrote a letter soliciting military contracts...
...making. White House aides reply that the Democrats were so splintered on taxes that no fruitful negotiations were possible. The fight will just about reverse traditional party roles: the Democrats will warn stridently against inflationary deficits; the Republicans will argue that economic stagnation is a greater danger than red ink...
...reason? Management would rather compromise than allow player rep Marvin Miller to get his hands on black-ink statements that are embarrassingly large. The Yankees, according to a story that will run in New York's Village Voice next week, cleared $6.7 million last season after taxes, and grossed an unbelievable $28 million. Admittedly, they are baseball's most successful club, but consider that the Dodgers are aiming for an all-time attendance record of '3.6 million fans, or that White Sox executive Eddie Einhorn is close to signing a contract that would offer 140 games on cable television yearly...