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...highest civilization," wrote Emerson, "the book is still the highest delight." Well, not for Michael Milken, particularly since he is the book's subject. The controversial junk-bond financier reportedly offered to pay Writer Connie Bruck to give up work on her book about him and his investment firm, Drexel Burnham Lambert. "I do not want it to be done. Why don't we pay you for all the copies you would have sold -- if you had written it," Milken suggested to Bruck after she began working on the project in 1986, according to an extract of the manuscript obtained...
...brilliant stroke of dramatic creativity, and the result is an effective representation of Gogol's strange genius. The cramped plainness of Leverett's D-entry basement (cleverly dubbed the "Gogol Space" for this production) is well-utilized in both pieces, first as a basement room heaped with junk for the adult storytellers to use as props, then as a cell in an asylum...
...grunt work. Last month the Poynter Institute for Media Studies in St. Petersburg, Fla., brought the two sides together to discuss press credibility. There were a few sharp words. Miffed at the cracks about TV entertainment, Don Hewitt, producer of CBS's 60 Minutes, wondered about "all that junk"--advice columns, features, horoscopes--in newspapers. Eugene Patterson, a veteran newspaper editor who is chairman of the institute, phrased the charge against the tube a little differently from Black: through television, "the public got a look at us and didn't like what it saw." Television feeds egos; in some, said...
...sectionals, let alone the nationals. Right then I decided I wasn't going to put the rest of my life on the line in front of some judges who might not like my yellow dress. That was the year I did correspondence school: you know, mail-it-in junk. I didn't learn a thing, and I wanted to learn everything...
...beatings have provided only a temporary respite. Last week fresh waves of violence swept over the West Bank and Gaza. For two days the Casbah of Nablus rang with a harsh tattoo as young stick-wielding Palestinian militants pounded on closed shop shutters and metallic junk barricades. Defying a curfew, the youths, armed with slingshots and iron bars, declared the old, walled portion of the West Bank city to be a Palestinian enclave. Forbidden red-black-white-an d-green Palestinian flags waved from the mosques, the gangs controlled the streets, and the army refused to enter...