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William Capobianco's one-man financial consulting firm in Eastchester, N.Y., would not exist without services such as CompuServe, Dow Jones and the Source. By plugging into these far-flung communication systems, Capobianco can advertise his company across the U.S., chat with clients, make travel plans and keep up with current affairs. Says he: "I couldn't survive without the networks...
...irritatingly provincial, he is scarcely known at all. The main reason for this--apart from the difficulty some people have in judging serious figurative painting and distinguishing it from common illustration--is that Lopez works with fanatical slowness, so his total oeuvre is small. He has had only nine one-man shows in his life, and the last one in New York was in 1968. It is unlikely that a better chance to see a quantity of his work together will come up soon...
Hafferty noted that Harvard committed too many fouls and had to play one-man down too often: "We made a lot of little mistakes, a lot of little fouls which hurt...
...first the skirmish prompted a bit of anxiety among moneymen, especially when Seger declared that the board was no longer Volcker's "one-man show." Financiers feared that the Reagan appointees might lower the Federal Reserve's guard against inflation and bend too much to the Administration's eagerness to expand the economy. Said Norman Robertson, chief economist at Pittsburgh's Mellon Bank: "Any pretense of the Fed being nonpolitical is now gone...
...fine sense of control. Watson moves from aged recollector to callow youth with a startling ease. His control of voice and movement, save a few some minor quavers, is excellent. He carries the opening monologue with such success that the audience wonders if he could have carried off a one-man rendition of Travesties...