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During his two-term mayoral stint, which ended in 1980, the tough-talking Rizzo earned enemies among blacks and liberals for his outspoken support of a police department they considered to be brutal to blacks and insensitive to citizens' rights. To soften his combative image during the current campaign, Rizzo signed up for some public relations cosmetology. First he hired New York Media Consultant David Sawyer, who attempted unsuccessfully to portray his barrel-chested client as wiser and mellower. Then Sawyer's replacement, Baltimore Consultant Robert Goodman, promised to show "not the old Rizzo or the new Rizzo...
Just calling the two-year stint of the Northwestern women's lacrosse squad a success, however, might even be an understatement. Since it was elevated to varsity status last year, the team has amassed an incredible 20-5 record and has claimed superiority in a region where lacrosse is about as popular as Captain Kirk is in the Klingon Zone...
...sandy-haired pro sports a Stanford ring on his left hand, a reminder of his three-year stint there where he majored in European History. Although he played both baseball and basketball in high school, Mayotte always though he'd have a professional tennis career. His decision to quit Stanford has turned out to be profitable. Last year Mayotte earned $130,000 in prize money on the tour and reaped an additional income from his contracts with Rossignol, Peugeot, and Adidas...
...chaise longue that is covered with classified cables. In a Churchillian pose, he holds a thick cigar in one hand and shoos away his old English sheep dog, Wellington, with the other. Deane Hinton then offers TIME'S Timothy Loughran some frank views on his two-year stint as envoy to El Salvador and the aims of U.S. policy there...
Though a comedy, Moscow Circles is dense with darker implications as Erofeev mercilessly reveals the absurdities of Soviet life. The reader learns, for example, of his stint as a construction foreman; the workers would lay some cable one day, get drunk, take it out the next, get drunk, and so on ad nauseam. He was eventually fired because he made the system more efficient--be dispensed with the cable altogether. The turgid rhetoric of state propaganda is lampooned in the workers' hypocritical socialist pledges, but the humor does not eclipse more sinister themes: "I like the fact that my compatriots...