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...master of both political infighting and self-promotion. He made many friends in Congress, partly because he never turned down requests to testify. When Seidman came under White House fire for excessive independence last spring, one appreciative Republican Congressman, Jim Leach of Iowa, said, "Bill Seidman is the Jane Pauley of American government." Like Pauley, Seidman has been very visible on TV lately, which he calls "getting your case before the public." Is there perhaps also a bit of the ham in him? Maybe not, but how many other short, bald, aged accountants have appeared in a Robert Redford movie...
REPORTER-RESEARCHERS: Ursula Nadasdy de Gallo, Brigid O'Hara-Forster, Jeanne- Marie North, Jane Van Tassel (Department Heads); Audrey Ball, Bernard Baumohl, David Bjerklie, Rosemary Byrnes, Val Castronovo, Nancy McD. Chase, Oscar Chiang, John E. Gallagher, Lois Gilman, Tam Martinides Gray, Georgia Harbison, Michael P. Harris, Anne Hopkins, Katherine Mihok, Adrianne Jucius Navon, Nancy Newman, Susan M. Reed, Elizabeth Rudulph, Zona Sparks, William Tynan, Sidney Urquhart, Susanne Washburn (Senior Staff); Elizabeth L. Bland, Kathleen Brady, Barbara Burke, Wendy Cole, Tom Curry, Nelida Gonzalez Cutler, Sally B. Donnelly, Andrea Dorfman, David Ellis, Kathryn Jackson Fallon, Mary McC. Fernandez, Janice M. Horowitz...
...Quincunx by Charles Palliser. Roughly half a million words long, this extravagant narrative is a faithful re-creation of the 19th century British novel -- lots of them, including Bleak House, Great Expectations and Jane Eyre. Miraculously, this bald-faced imitation works wonders. The author makes the distant world of Victorian fiction, with its careful plotting and moral punctiliousness, as gripping as tomorrow's whodunit...
Most Resurgent Decade Nineties fashions hitched a ride back to the '60s. Skirts hiked back up to mini length. Widened ties boasted loud colors. Headbands returned. Designers even resurrected Jane Fonda's Barbie-goes-to- Armageddon sado suits...
REPORTER-RESEARCHERS: Ursula Nadasdy de Gallo, Brigid O'Hara-Forster, Jeanne- Marie North, Jane Van Tassel (Department Heads); Audrey Ball, Bernard Baumohl, David Bjerklie, Rosemary Byrnes, Val Castronovo, Nancy McD. Chase, Oscar Chiang, John E. Gallagher, Lois Gilman, Tam Martinides Gray, Georgia Harbison, Michael P. Harris, Anne Hopkins, Katherine Mihok, Adrianne Jucius Navon, Nancy Newman, Susan M. Reed, Elizabeth Rudulph, Zona Sparks, William Tynan, Sidney Urquhart, Susanne Washburn (Senior Staff); Elizabeth L. Bland, Kathleen Brady, Barbara Burke, Wendy Cole, Tom Curry, Nelida Gonzalez Cutler, Sally B. Donnelly, Andrea Dorfman, David Ellis, Kathryn Jackson Fallon, Mary McC. Fernandez, David M. Gross...