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...expensive-to knock off, but his jackets have been endlessly copied. "You can copy the look," cautions Dawn Mello, executive vice president of Bergdorf Goodman, "but you can never copy the fit." Indeed, Mello's description of wearing an Armani suit goes past simple enthusiasm or even shrewd salesmanship; it sounds like a recollection of a heavy first date. "Armani really put women in suits," she says. "He emancipated them, in a way. A man expects his suits to be very well made, to move easily when he walks Armani tailored that suit for women, then took...
Finding the object, however, proved to be more difficult. Working at night for secrecy, Thomas investigated Kimbolton Castle in Cambridgeshire, 21 miles north of Ampthill Park, where Henry's abandoned Queen died in 1536. The castle, now a girls' school, yielded nothing. Then Thomas took a shrewd tack. He researched Williams' own background for links, figuring rightly that the author would have buried the pendant in a place he knew. Ultimately, however, success was due as much to luck as to deduction. Driving past Ampthill Park one afternoon, near a spot where Williams had once lived, Thomas...
...President Sauter. During the interim, Sauter was to serve as Leonard's deputy, but Leonard soon decided to leave early: Sauter had lost no time in taking control. Around the network's west-side Manhattan broadcast center, what happened next was dubbed "Sauter on Tenth Avenue." A shrewd manager with a track record of boosting ratings at local stations, the Ohio-born Sauter spooked the normally self-confident CBS News staff with the pronouncement: "Today is the first day of the rest of your careers." He quickly purged the Evening News production staff of Cronkite's crew...
Glemp, 53, the plain-spoken son of an Inowroclaw salt miner, is well prepared for that task. The holder of doctorates in Roman and canon law, he has a shrewd political sense that belies his squat, jug-eared physical appearance. Glemp apparently intends to pursue a cautious policy under martial law, putting moral pressure on the regime but avoiding inflammatory gestures that might incite violence and provoke a Soviet invasion...
Thus the Clare Boothe Luce who emerges in this lively, shrewd, indulgent book is, sui generis, a complicated and brilliant woman who has more or less equally enjoyed LSD and scuba diving and her honorary status as general in the U.S. Army. Sheed's book is complicated too. It is not, he ultimately concedes, a biography at all. Maybe, he suggests, "Notes on a Career" will...