Word: savvyness
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Sensitive to accusations of unseemly opulence in menus for the 1981 Inauguration parties, committee heads, party bigwigs and savvy hostesses this time took vows of simplicity. "The word was out from the Inaugural committee that this is a people's Inauguration," said Dane Towell of Glorious Food, a catering firm...
By far the most surprising change was a straight switch in jobs between James Baker III, 54, the President's smooth, politically savvy chief of staff, and Donald Regan, 66, the blustery, hard-driving Secretary of the Treasury. After four grueling years in the White House, Baker had yearned for...
The loan money was used to fund an expanded government, but Mexico's new leaders are technocrats who lack the political savvy and personal forcefulness of their predecessors. Miguel de la Madrid, K-School grad and Mexico's current President, has grown increasingly unpopular as he has responded to the...
Both Halstead and Barrett noted that Nancy Reagan, a very shy and private person, had developed greater assurance during Reagan's presidency. "I find her more self-confident today and more at peace with her role as First Lady," says Barrett. "She is now somewhat more willing to acknowledge her...
The Del-Lords: Frontier Days (EMI/ America). When a rambunctious band makes a debut album as good as this, it should be all set. The Del-Lords' influences range from Warren Zevon to Alfred Reed, whose vintage How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live kicks the...