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...easily to Quiggle, who joined TIME in 1979 and served as cover art researcher from 1980 to 1984 and deputy makeup editor from 1981 to 1986. She became makeup editor three years ago, but claims her natural affinity for the work goes back much further. "As a kid I seldom lost at bridge. That's why I got the job," she says half jokingly. "It requires a knack for puzzle solving." Not to mention diplomacy and stamina. Quiggle works closely with the magazine's advertising staff to help coordinate the fast-moving mix of articles and ads that appears...
Luckily, Baker seldom searches for deeper meaning in his mental meanderings. The appeal of seeing one's own life reflected in these ruminations ("I've thought about that too!") allows them to stand by themselves--without contrived morals or conclusions...
...finger rolls over slam dunks, Kareem lacked the good taste to be chagrined by his size, to shrink himself down to tradition, to hide the shame of his incongruous talents. He was as tall as Chamberlain and yet as agile as Bill Russell. "His sky hook," says Russell, who seldom rhapsodizes, "is the most beautiful thing in sports...
People with a particular talent -- especially a visual talent -- are seldom the best theorists of what they do. Georges Seurat, for instance, was tiresome on pointillism. So perhaps Richard Saul Wurman, a graphic designer who creates the delightfully unorthodox Access guides to cities, should have left it to someone else to explain how people can organize the overflow of data that saturates contemporary life. Information Anxiety is an intermittently diverting self-help guide, Megatrends crossed with What Color Is Your Parachute? But it is more a collage than a book -- with digressive marginalia, diagrams, stray factoids and snatches of autobiography...
...That's what leaders are for, to take the heat," drawled House Speaker Jim Wright, sporting his trademark country-boy grin. It has seldom been hotter than it has been since plans for a 51% pay hike for top Government officials, including members of Congress, touched off a political fire storm...