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...sort of hero. A millionaire who often lived like a bum, sleeping in a closet with his clothes on-because he believed that taking them off promoted insomnia-and spitting on the floor even in his cherished laboratories. A picturesque swearer who hired assistants whom George Bernard Shaw called "sensitive, cheerful and profane; liars, braggarts and hustlers." A would-be tycoon so crotchety and bullheaded that he could give little credit to the ideas of others; so inept in business matters that he lost control of the immensely profitable companies he founded. An incurable show-off and self-promoter...
...group of American students standing outside the school as the U.S. flag was lowered. Zonians joked that Foul Play, the film showing at the local theater, was grimly appropriate; the movie was replaced the day after the turnover by El Expreso de los Espias, a spy film starring Robert Shaw and Lee Marvin that was titled Avalanche Express in the U.S. Shortly before the switch in sovereignty, many Americans sported T shirts with defiant emblems. One pictured a green monster raising its middle finger and the legend TO JIMMY FROM THE CANAL ZONE...
...twisted, demonic drives in check with a keen intelligence. No moment in the opera was more splendidly sung or powerfully acted than the second act S i, pel ciel, with Otello looming over him with upraised hand, like a malign marionette master. In this scene Verdi transcended Shakespeare, said Shaw. Watching Domingo and Milnes, one could only agree...
Employees sometimes mock his youthful vigor ("Here comes Otis dribbling his shotput through the newsroom"). But they generally respect his hands-off policy. When Chandler asked for an advance look at Times Media Reporter David Shaw's 1976 story on the newspaper business, Shaw questioned the propriety of Chandler's request and the publisher backed down...
...ignored a story about the death of Eula Love, a black woman shot eight times by two policemen. More than three months later after Esquire mentioned the Times's omission, the paper printed a front-page story about the shooting. (The Times did run a piece by David Shaw last month confessing the Begelman and Love failures.) "I would be willing to make the investment on those communities if I felt I knew how to do it," says Chandler...