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...speeches to groups of employees or Wall Street analysts can have a narcotic effect. Asked to explain his formula for success, he admits that "it isn't my charisma." AT&T insiders say he hides his emotions and signals distress only by growing ominously silent. On balance, that stolid style has been an asset. Says Rawleigh Warner Jr., chairman of Mobil and an AT&T director: "He's equitable, and he doesn't lose his cool. There are no highs or lows, just steadiness." Brown, who lives in Princeton, N.J., with his second wife, Ann Lee, works...
...Avenue of the Presidents. To them, the Post Office seemed as out of place as flamboyant Diamond Jim Brady at a state dinner. Abandoned in 1934 by the Post Office Department, the building became known as the "Old Tooth" that blocked progress in the Federal Triangle, a stolid group of buildings that includes the National Archives and the Justice Department. For 45 years the structure gathered grime, and its seedy offices were used by various Government agencies, including the FBI's wiretapping unit...
...dominate. A bear of a man, Franz makes love with feral ferocity, strapping his mate around his body, biting her neck in carnivore passion. It takes a special kind of actor to play Franz, and Lamprecht, who looks like a cross between Emil Tannings and Hermann Goering, has the stolid majesty for the role. As for Fassbinder's actresses, they have always been lush galvanizers who surrender voluptuously to the jagged contours of melodrama. The viewer surrenders, just as willingly, to Trissenaar, a Diane Keaton-type, but with brains and guts and class; to Schygulla, with her wicked-witch...
...idea, and not altogether conventional or acceptable. But for a brief moment, Frank Reynolds broke the age-old notion of the unemotional, stolid newsreader, seemingly detached from all that he sees and does. He proved that he was hardly part of a dying breed--above all, he was a human being, and he showed that at a time when it was perhaps most understandable. In the all-important, ultra-professional, multi million dollar business of television news, sometimes that aspect of things is all too easy to forget...
DIED. Nikolai Podgorny, 79, the Soviet Union's President from 1965 to 1977 who traveled the world on ceremonial missions, projecting the preferred Soviet image of stolid gray; in Kiev. The son of a foundry worker, Podgorny had a lackluster early career as a bureaucrat in the Ukraine before being brought into the Politburo in 1960 and into the Secretariat of the Central Committee in 1963. As Nikita Khrushchev's loyal protégé, he seemed his probable successor, but following Khrushchev's 1964 ouster, Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev elbowed Podgorny into the largely powerless presidency...