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...compared Soglin to Don Quixote. Most, in fact, recognize that Soglin is a shrewd politician with a good shot at re-election when his two-year term expires next April. He has disarmed many of the city's conservatives and picked up a new constituency among the moderates. He feels that he has held onto the support of all but the most disillusioned radicals. Soglin would like another term in which to carry out some of his ideas on housing and land-use planning. Beyond that, he says he has higher ambitions. If he wins a second term...
...Autoportrait seemed to be an African rendering of Titus Andronicus. For three weeks last whiter, Schroeder and his crew tried to capture Big Daddy on film. Amin himself planned and supervised each day's shooting, improvising enthusiastically to illustrate his ideas. By turns charming and cruel, shrewd and funny, Amin credits his popularity to his sincerity. "I always speak the truth," he said. Already a hit in Paris, Autoportrait, which opens in two London cinemas this week, includes a homey note. Posing with seven of his 18 children, the general chortles: "I'm a very good marksman...
Cold Calculation. Unlike Texas Millionaire Hunt, Davidson has not had a family fortune to back his enterprises. What the son of a poor Montana farmer has lacked in money, though, he has more than made up in flair, shrewd business sense and sheer moxie. He set the tone for his climb to fortune eight years ago when he was running a modest law office in Southern California. "If people came in my office with money," Davidson says, "I took their cases...
...ways as well as loud. He is accused of insufficient sympathy for fellow blacks; yet he unobtrusively gives away thousands of dollars every year to black, Indian and Mexican-American community groups. He sometimes likes to come on like just another impulsive free-spending jock; actually, he is a shrewd businessman (land development) who just may make good on an ambition to become baseball's first black team owner...
...Salter and her friend have a shrewd sense of business--if not art. They know that a gallery can't survive by just selling a few expensive paintings each month. So they buy prints and water colors from local artists which they think will appeal to students. These are cheap, often cute, occasionally psychedelic--reminescent of the art you stare at glassy-eyed in a dentist's office. Salter says they sell very well...