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...enclosed, unreal atmosphere that big hotels are so good at breeding. Muzak drifts through the halls; imitation classical urns are scattered discreetly in corners: hotel defectives wander around, checking things out. The leaders of the conference were, above all, smooth and in control. They were dressed in immaculate double-knit suits, and wore typed nametags with a bewildering assortment of bureaucratic titles: there were, for instance, six assistant under-secretaries-general, two assistant deputy secretaries-general, and five vice presidents, among other officials. You could tell the really important people because they had entourages, so that whenever they walked down...
...crowd is docile, about half black and half white, a group of refugees with the common bond of having been bombed out of a job. They are a mixture of "good ole boys" with beer bellies bulging over the belts of their double-knit slacks, trim women in stylish pantsuits and fur jackets, and young managers and technicians in three-button, charcoal gray suits. The newcomers, skittish and self-conscious at first, soon relax as they sense that they are not alone. Hardly anyone reads to kill time. Conversation is minimal and muted. Children accompanying their parents are subdued. Veteran...
...rest of the Flyers, who are an unusually tight-knit and gentle group off the ice, the overwhelming statistic is penalty minutes. Two years ago, the team smashed the N.H.L. record for penalties, collecting 1,756 minutes. Last year they fell just short of matching that mark, and this season they have fought their way ahead of the record pace. The reason for all this violence is Shero's strategy of victory through fear power. Freely admitting that Philadelphia lacks the quality players of other leading teams, Shero tries to make up for it with position play and intimidation...
...forces that shaped Jackson included the prolabor, internationalist traditions of Washington State, and his close-knit family. Born May 31, 1912, he was the youngest of four children in a working-class family in Everett, a small mill town 28 miles north of Seattle. His Lutheran parents had emigrated from Norway in the 1880s; Father Peter was a cement worker, Mother Marie was a stern but loving matriarch who infused in her son a strong sense of right and wrong...
...GODFATHER, PART II is both a sequel and a prequel, circling round the events of the original Godfather but leaving that tightly-knit, well-spun story--a film that kept everyone, critics and mass audience alike, on the edge of their seats--standing alone and untouched. Francis Ford Coppola's new movie is cut from the same cloth as Godfather I, but the pieces are arranged differently. It contains the same kinds of scenes--a sudden barrage of machine-gun fire rips open a quiet evening, the Don deals with his petitioners like a medieval monarch receiving his subjects...