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...quickly taken to the new technology. She consults the electronic phone book at least three times a week, calling up lists of music halls, dance studios and movie theaters. "Whenever I need a phone book now, I always use the électronique, "says Isabelle. "It's much quicker and a lot more...
...Cardinal Sins shocked many with its tortured, bisexual archbishop, whose encounters with women are invariably brutal. Thy Brother's Wife (contrary to Greeley's mock self-review) is in fact a better, more hopeful book. The pace is quicker, the characters more firmly drawn, the sexual rites gentler. Greeley's turf remains Camelot West: the Chicago of lace-curtain Irish who have pushed their way to the top. Multimillionaire Mike Cronin, who beds women faster than Joe Kennedy could say "Gloria Swanson," has set the course for his two sons. Paul, the Notre Dame boy who goes...
...gone. Haig had encountered great difficulty in penetrating the "troika" arrangement at the White House, under which Meese, Baker and Deputy Chief of Staff Michael Deaver share authority; he could never figure out whom to see. With Clark in the White House, Haig thought, his views would get a quicker and fuller hearing...
Waiters are usually instructed to clear dishes promptly so that adding machines and balance sheets can be displayed across the damask. With office appointments looming, discussions move briskly to their conclusion. Says Ed Meyer, chairman of Grey Advertising: "Breakfast is self-limiting; it's shorter, quicker and more efficient." Meyer likes to be finished eating and off to his office...
...going to have to work on our defense," said Kleinfelder," and the offense will have to start working off the ball more. We also have to make quicker and better decisions with our passes...