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...repair shop in Lexington, Mass. But last February the Bank of Boston suddenly called in the loan. The bank, which was responding to pressure from U.S. regulators to tighten credit standards, relented only after an outraged Richardson went public with his plight by telling it to reporters in a one-man media blitz. Says he: "It would have made no sense to close my doors and sell everything off just to pay back the bank. How absolutely ridiculous and astounding for a little loan like that...
...eyes are constantly scanning his listeners, looking by turns stern, quizzical, amused, playful. When eyes meet, they both challenge and hint at shared confidences. Whatever lies nearby -- a fountain pen, a gray glasses case from a Paris optician, his gold-rimmed bifocals -- quickly becomes a prop for Gorbachev's one-man show. When the hands are at rest, his thumbs twiddle, not so much in impatience as with excess energy. He modulates his baritone voice for maximum effect, sometimes dropping the volume so that visitors automatically lean toward him. His lilting south Russian intonation softens the harsh edge...
...gentleman of color on the faculty at the Law School who is conducting a one-man strike until a lady of color is offered a professorship on the legal faculty seems to have omitted several considerations: 1. The lady should also be a Muslim (very few on the faculty). 2. She should be a lesbian. 3. She should also know something about law. Arthur J. Morgan...
Elephant tusks, rhino horns and leopard skins confiscated from poachers were a common sight in the "ivory room" of the Kenyan Game Department's Mombasa office, where Werikhe used to work. But a pair of 50-kg (110-lb.) tusks brought in one day by a game warden induced him to start his one-man crusade. "Being an African, I see wildlife as part of my heritage," Werikhe says. "If wildlife goes, then part of me is dead. I wanted to campaign for wildlife in my own private...
Hecht was not just a cog in America's great art industry. He was a one-man cottage industry, occasionally directing his own scripts but more often writing and rewriting for hire. The filmography in William MacAdams' brisk biography of Hecht lists 143 movie projects, on 77 of which he got no screen credit. The list includes many of Hollywood's sassiest entertainments (Scarface, Twentieth Century, His Girl Friday), but neither MacAdams nor any other scholar can isolate Hecht's contribution to each of them. Only this can be said with assurance: Ben Hecht did not work on Citizen Kane...