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...playground just because I liked it." He was Lew Alcindor then, a bookish Harlem Catholic constructed of high-tension wires connected at right angles. He developed a hopping hook shot, calling to mind a praying mantis assembling a foldout lawn chair, out of early necessity: all his straightforward attempts were being blocked. He made a style of coming at things from a different angle...
...destruction should not have surprised anyone--the University announced last spring that it intended to demolish the building and replace it with a five-story hotel. What was disturbing was the timing of the move and the University's straightforward admission that it destroyed the building before it was eligible to attain landmark status...
...Anthony ("Anthony want pretzel?" "Not want."). According to Don, the name also "parallels the reaction to our music, which is 'What?' " No matter what its inspiration or explanation, Was (Not Was) is certainly an improvement on Fagenson (not Weiss), which, while never a consideration, would at least have been straightforward. Don Fagenson and David Weiss first met in eighth grade outside a gym teacher's office, where they awaited disciplining. Don's parents were both teachers. David's mother was an actress, and his father was a radio and TV actor who worked with everyone from Orson Welles to Soupy...
...would consider supply-side economics, although he only seemed to learn them during the election campaign in 1980. You've heard this a million times from people writing memoirs: it's a little difficult to engage him in a substantive debate. He had a few relatively simple and straightforward ideas. And in fact I didn't see him much as the second term progressed. ((Chief of staff)) Don Regan kept saying, "You've got to see him much more frequently. I'll arrange it." But he never did. When I saw him, it was probably as often...
...honesty exams, which were given to 3.5 million job applicants last year at a cost of $5 to $15 each, can be surprisingly straightforward. A questionnaire published by Reid Psychological Systems of Chicago asks test takers to mark whether or not they recently "overcharged a customer for personal gain" or "took something from a store without paying for it." Many job applicants freely reveal their transgressions. "People put things on written tests they wouldn't tell their mothers," says Larry Audler, vice president of personnel for the New Orleans-based D.H. Holmes department-store chain...