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...food-service company (1986 profits of $480 million on sales of $12.4 billion) is showing that it can be far more aggressive, imaginative and socially savvy than almost anyone has given it credit for. McDonald's is now trimming the fat and shaking the salt from its food, installing sleek outlets in U.S. airports and hospitals, taking its burgers to such far-flung locales as Yugoslavia and Guam and serving as a leading U.S. employer of minorities and the elderly. Thanks to its current vitality, McDonald's is maintaining its growth while such rivals as Burger King and Wendy...
Snowboarding. To traditionalists, the breezy fad is a clumsy intrusion on the sleek precision of downhill skiing, but to some 100,000 enthusiasts, many of them adolescent males, it is the coolest snow sport of the season. From Vermont to California, snowboarders are shredding the slopes on a cross between a surfboard and a ski, a 5-ft.-long, 10-in.-wide piece of laminated wood or fiber glass with fixed bindings that can easily strap around any sturdy boot. No poles needed. The newborn sport, like its cousins surfing and skateboarding, requires agility and a keen sense of balance...
...easy to fall in love not only with the shapes and colors of the animals but with their motions, their curving and infinitely varied gaits. The zebra moves with a strong, short-muscled stride. It is a sleek, erotic beast with vigorous bearing. The zebra's self-possession is a likable trait. It is human habit to sort the animals almost immediately into orders of preference. The animals are arranged in people's minds as a popularity contest. Some animals are endearing, and some repulsive. One wants to see the lion first, and then the elephant and after that...
Forced upon business by unprecedented global competition and financial turbulence, the change is so swift and powerful that it is churning across the business landscape with the force of an army of bulldozers. American companies have started the huge task of rebuilding themselves from the ground up, erecting a sleek new operating architecture to replace the unwieldy processes of the past. At corporate headquarters and on factory floors from New York City to Los Angeles, newly cost-conscious executives are on a relentless examination of the efficiency and effectiveness of everything they do. They are tearing up organization charts, selling...
...nominee for an '80s Cary Grant, but his frat-boy smile freezes nicely when he realizes he is suspected of murder. Until she must act the trollop to entice the killer, McGovern makes for an agreeably matter-of-fact heroine. If only there were a little sleek skin on the bones of this plot. The visuals are the pictorial equivalent of Dragnet prose; they offer just the facts, ma'am, but no sizzle, irony or insight. So The Bedroom Window looks like a peculiar tribute to Hitchcock: an exercise in style without the style...