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...conventional wisdom holds that Shultz is the bureaucratic winner. Up to now, he has been reluctant to enter the political fray, seldom advocating tough policy positions within the Administration. He has been a reassuring gray eminence, radiating sobriety and good sense. Now the Secretary of State has no rival stationed at the White House whom he has to outmaneuver. With U.S. entanglements around the world unusually complex and dangerous, it is a good time for George Shultz to step out front - and maybe even make some waves...
...Seldom have two captains been such good friends, had so much in common, and yet been so different. Not only are they different in appearance and personality, they also have divergent political leanings. Rippy is a self-styled "middle-of-the-roader," while McNulty says he's "more than a little conservative," calls his co-captain a "bleeding-heart liberal" and declares that "Felix often has to change his shirt, there is so much blood...
...book's great virtue is common sense. It recommends that no computer should be bought on the promise of what will be available next week or next month, because such promises are seldom kept. A new machine or program should not be purchased until it has been thoroughly tested and the bugs removed. And the author gently reproves old computer hands irritated by the latest category of social bore, the newly minted fanatic. After all, today's veterans were once zealots...
Beyond the Limit is billed as a political thriller, but the politics are superficial and the thrill nonexistent. The vast spaces unoccupied by content are filled with choppy, television-like filming and a heavy-handed musical score. Seldom has so much meant so little to so many...
...furor in Newport over the dilapidation of Mrs. James Jay Coogan's empty mansion on aristocratic Catherine Street turned the spotlight on one of the world's wealthiest recluses: for 25 years Mrs. Coogan, now well into her 80s, has seldom left her Manhattan hotel suite in the daytime, but each night at 9 o'clock she goes down in the freight elevator heavily veiled, drives to her cubbyhole office in a loft building, puts in five hours administering her real-estate fortune (which includes Coogan's Bluff, the Polo Grounds where the Giants play...