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...supply-side test, a financial shake-up and merger mania...
...bumptious executives. For too many, nose-to-the-grindstone careers have left little time for the velvet touch. In addition, Stewart has written eleven books, three of them with Ann Buchwald, wife of Columnist Art, which sport such jaunty titles as Looking Pretty, Feeling Fine and Stand Up, Shake Hands...
Frazier can still shake the building. When he spars with his sons, Marvis and Hector, he looks old and slow. Like a gingerbread man, he has plumped out (to 229 lbs.). But the whomp he fetches the big bag can still tingle a spine. "At all times," he instructs the boys gently, "try to take their heads...
Last week in the decrepit Chicago Amphitheater, in the middle of the stockyards, Joe and Floyd ("Jumbo") Cummings fought to a melancholy ten-round draw. Frazier may still shake buildings, but what once would have been lethal lefts did not move Jumbo, a muscle-bound 30-year-old ex-convict, who almost knocked Joe out three different times. Joe's left eye was blackened, his lower lip was frayed, his face was starting to lose definition just like in the old days, and he felt wonderful. "It was worth it to me," he said. "When I got shook...
...traditional Southern bigot, though Jeremy Rabinovitz contorts his own face to better effect as Cotchipee's wimpy-yet-enlightened son. As these two and others draw Purlie into more and more awkward predicaments, one realizes LaVergne's repertoire of emotions is limited to a few gestures--a frown and shake of the head for disappointment, and a recurrent toss of the shoulders to suggest the determined faith that is ostensibly Purlie's defining characteristic...