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Spielberg is a lean, brown-bearded, medium-size man whose considerable physical presence seems stressed by his steadily ticking analytical intelligence. He wears a standard director's outfit, a khaki safari jacket and jeans. Otherwise, there is very little that is standard about him and almost nothing suggesting Hollywood. He is obsessive about self-control and, perhaps for that reason, takes no drugs, virtually no alcohol and carries herbal tea bags to avoid caffeine drinks. When he is in Beverly Hills he does the food shopping, to the frustration of his maid Bertha Kanafil, and cooks often...
...these players decide to go pro? It can't be that they think they will be more admired. How could they? The NBA is an infinitely less classy outfit. Instead of announcers with the wit and charm of Billy Packer, the pros give us Johnny Most, the man with more chins than he has irritating phrases...
Interestingly, White is quite open about the machine's existence--"my vaunted organization" he calls his political outfit. After 14 years in office--longer than any other current big city mayor--it's inevitable that some changes in approach would be made. The turning point for White came in 1975 Until then, he raised his campaign force around election time, just as most politicians do. But in 1975 after an unexpectedly close shave in the race with state Sen. Joseph Timility, he had second thoughts. He felt he was losing touch with his constituents...
...talented Julliard and Oberlin graduates who had escaped the rigors of New York competition to find themselves and true musical integrity in the woods. In the winters they taught part time at local colleges, and some played in the Pear Valley Ensemble, a fairly well-known chamber music outfit, which tours New England regularly. Mostly pushing 35, these nature loving artistes compensated for varying degrees of career frustration by clinging to remnants of their adolescence...
...days of limos rented on a lark and unlimited room service from the kitchen and the pharmacy. Gone is much of the personnel, borne off by cuts in all echelons-sparing, of course, the most exalted executive suites, where gloom and consternation flourish nonetheless. There is no smart little outfit that has tapped into a new style or audience. No big company has been totally successful at using their 20-megaton talent to fend off the incursions of recession. "Record sales are flat," says an industry executive. "Everybody is making a nickel or a dime, but nobody is making millions...