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...oldest and most venerable names in U.S. advertising. In an unwelcome bid, the Briton proposed to pay $730 million to acquire the Ogilvy Group, which owns Ogilvy & Mather, the fifth largest U.S. advertising firm. The agency, which created the Man in the Hathaway Shirt campaign and today's sleek celebrity ads for American Express, has been independent since it was founded in 1948. If Sorrell were to succeed in taking over Ogilvy, his combined empire (estimated annual billings: $13.5 billion) would rank a close second to Britain's Saatchi & Saatchi, the world's largest ad firm. That may be more...
Realizing the momentous task ahead, FSLIC officials have made an attempt to become more savvy in their dealmaking. The agency's central-region division has taken over three blue-carpeted floors of a sleek office building in north Dallas, and is opening a ground-floor showroom to hawk its myriad properties. The 15-member sales staff is augmented by 100 private contractors and real estate agents who work for fees and commissions...
Ivlev, who often wears imported jeans and Adidas sneakers, has richly furnished the three-room apartment he shares with his wife Tanya and son Sergei. A sleek, ebony-colored bookcase holds a Korean color TV and matching video system. Ivlev says he paid 1,000 rubles ($1,600) for a Panasonic tape deck. "And we have better food because we shop at the open market, where prices are higher," he points out. Is their bank account growing? "It's not our aim to save money," says Tanya. "We want to spend as much...
...books are peopled by liberal sophisticates in comfortable, man-made environments. One of the pleasures of reading Updike has been his meticulous attention to the ways, particularly sexually, we live now. But these sleek surfaces reflect hidden depths. He writes, "It was and is still my fate to like the settings and the personalities that enlightenment creates without wanting, myself, to be thoroughly enlightened." Looking back on his career, he criticizes himself for having been too pliant and obedient, too willing to "go along" with the exigencies of reality. But in the process he displays his self, the stubborn core...
...squash as the Cadillac is to the car world. He's got that sleek, lanky frame and he moves just so smoothly out there. He's not all that flashy, but he'll get the job done. In a Churchillian sense of the word, he's a classy dude...