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...course, the new book seems to focus on a love affair that young Lipsha Morrissey never quite convinces beautiful Shawnee Ray that she should dive into with him. (His failure may have something to do with an unsuccessful vision quest during which he is sprayed by a talking skunk.) But Erdrich loses interest in Lipsha's love troubles, and we hear nothing more. Similarly, a chapter in which Lyman Lamartine, Lipsha's rival, goes off to Las Vegas and loses a big wad of the tribe's money leads nowhere...
...mascot could also give the other fans some one to look at when attention to the event inevitably lags. Have you ever been to a swim meet? Or a field hockey match? Having a kid dressed up as a moose or a skunk or a cod could only help...
...understand Trotman's management style, look at the Mustang. To save the company's new muscle car from the scrap heap -- a mission he took on as a personal project -- he allowed free reign to a skunk-works operation where teamwork and cooperation replaced procedures and hierarchies. One innovation that might never have fitted into an organization chart: putting engineers and computer designers into the same test cars just to keep their very different technical worlds focused on the real product. Trotman and other key Ford executives checked up on the Mustang project in after-hours visits by the back...
...relationship of the time. Johnson loved the inside dirt that Hoover, then 68, often whispered to him. Hoover used his confidential files to hang on to power long past retirement age. Once when an aide suggested Johnson get rid of Hoover, the President replied, "Son, when you have a skunk it is better to have him inside the tent pissing out than outside pissing...
...there's a juicy villain: Dr. Robert Gallo, the National Cancer Institute researcher who raced furiously against the French to be the first to identify the AIDS virus. As portrayed by Alan Alda, Gallo is a self-glorifying skunk who dreams up publicity releases for himself before he has anything to publicize. "From this day," he muses to an aide after a good day in the lab, "Dr. Robert Gallo makes the first gigantic strides in winning the -- what, the war or the battle? . . ." The characterization is overdone, but the picture of the competitive underside of medical research operations rings...