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...always work -- witness CBS's Frank's Place, a languid, unfunny variation on Cheers set in a New Orleans Creole restaurant. More promising is The "Slap" Maxwell Story, with Dabney Coleman as a self-centered sports columnist. Coleman, so delightfully rancid in Buffalo Bill, is more sympathetic here, his thick-skinned pomposity barely disguising the desperate character underneath. The ABC series, created by Jay Tarses (Buffalo Bill, The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd), is maybe too precious and in-jokish ("Six cliches in ten seconds," marvels a bartender after one of Slap's overripe monologues), but Coleman seems headed...
...mind a high-tech samurai helmet. But unlike the slicker gimmicky UFO architecture (Kurokawa's earlier work, for instance), Maki's gym is restrained and sober, a mature fantasy. The flawless, parabolic stainless-steel skin is 1.6 acres in size but just about one-sixtieth of an inch thick...
...after years of mammoth U.S. budget and foreign-trade deficits, the situation today is radically different. The buying of America has virtually turned into an industry of its own, with sharp-eyed advance crews scouting out the country's most attractively undervalued treasures, researchers typing up thick intelligence reports on U.S. acquisition targets, finance teams huddling with investment bankers in Tokyo, London and elsewhere, and blue-chip law firms constantly at work drafting reams of tender offers, prospectuses and sale documents...
...Almost five years after that experience ended, its effects linger on. Corporate cost-cutting programs begun during the recession have been continued and even intensified since, under the lash of foreign competition and the fear of hostile takeovers. Companies long known for keeping workers on the payroll through thick and thin have changed their policy: AT&T, for instance, has laid off 36,600 workers since January 1984. The result, says Alan Draper, coordinator of the Work in Society program at St. Lawrence University in Canton, N.Y.: "American workers are on the defensive. They are working as hard as they...
...hear the defectors tell it, you have to be an unemployed monk with rich friends to run comfortably. The nominating process, the product of accident rather than design, imposes crushing demands. At some point each hopeful must ask a cruel question: Am I a thick-skinned workaholic unconcerned about my . family's privacy, with enough ambition and money to carry me through more than 30 primaries and hundreds of fund raisers...