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...November after 23 years as president of Random House, a seemingly orchestrated campaign portrayed him as having shown insufficient regard for profit margins during the previous five fast-growing years, in which company revenues doubled. And after Andre Schiffrin left in February as head of Random House's esteemed Pantheon division, where profit had always been secondary to literary eclat, company officials hastened to portray him as fiscally incompetent. In April, as if to underscore the insult, Pantheon named a new executive editor, Erroll McDonald, 36, who in an op-ed column for the New York Times had scorned...
...WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES: IRREVERENT NOTES FROM A DECADE OF GREED by Barbara Ehrenreich (Pantheon; $19.95). The populist essayist leads a neoliberal charge against the '80s with some witty Reagan bashing, yuppie demolishing, corporation crunching and hearty swipes at a time when a clever few made so much at the expense of so many...
...Pantheon; 275 pages...
...there the similarities end, for Rossi is serious and original, deeply persuaded of his vision and never calculatingly fashionable. His work recalls the local vernacular (the silos, campaniles and old-fashioned factories of his native land) and the international architectural pantheon (Andrea Palladio, Etienne-Louis Boullee, Adolf Loos). Seamlessly, he combines the down-to-earth austerity of the former with the self-conscious erudition of the latter...
EVERYONE hates theater critics--those nasty bastards--but college theater critics belong in a special pantheon of cretins. It's easy to see why. Look at those pictures: people dancing, laughing, horsing around, working hard, waiting nervously in the wings, taking curtain calls. As the company of Damn Yankees demonstrates, putting a show together can be a warm, fun, exhausting experience, a time to form new and intimate relationships, a time when individuals merge into a team and develop together. (Sounds like an ad for Summer of '42.) The conflicts and squabbles of rehearsal can teach you more about yourself...