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...called on me for the first time in my new capacity. In a maneuver that was savored for its subtle nuances and vivid symbolism, Dobrynin's car was made to back out of the garage and proceed to the main entrance, where the flustered Ambassador dismounted into a thicket of microphones and cameras...
...TIME'S Los Angeles-based Show Business correspondent, Denise Worrell has often contended with the problem of gaining access to press-shy stars. "The hardest thing about reporting in Hollywood," she says, "is penetrating the thicket of people surrounding celebrities. Stars get heat rash in the constant glare of public scrutiny. If they do not have a thick skin, they get a thick entourage." Despite the difficulties presented by this fortress mentality, there is a need for it. Says Worrell: "Celebrities build barriers to protect themselves from the overcurious public. Unfortunately, a barrier can turn into a prison...
...been chairman of the Chloride Group, battery manufacturers, unceremoniously closed down plants and in five years chopped BL's work force from 192,000 to 108,000, prompting union leaders to denounce him as a "bloody Hitler." Using a mixture of threats and bluster, Edwardes cut through a thicket of antiquated factory-floor work habits. Meanwhile, he began to invest heavily in programmable robots and computers to help engineers design and manufacture autos. One result: output has risen in BL's Austin Rover group from 5.9 to 14 cars per worker per year since...
...trying too often to abdicate rather than carefully define its regulatory role, the Administration has given deregulation a bad name. That is unfortunate, because the thicket of Government regulation does indeed need thinning. Even pro-regulation activists concede that there are many outdated or overly stringent rules on the books. But the Reagan Administration's uneven approach has made regulatory reform a political danger zone, to be avoided at least until after the 1984 elections. Concedes a senior White House aide: "Deregulation doesn't have the same priority for us it used to have. The political dividend aren...
...celebrities and surely one of the most mysterious. Part faun, part satyr, he was avidly stalked, not just by gossips and journalists but by artistic, intellectual and political leaders fascinated by his movies. Yet he permitted only the briefest glimpses of his true self as he flitted through the thicket of myth and misinformation he deliberately created as a hiding place. Even his autobiography had almost nothing useful to say about how his genius functioned. It is an appropriate irony that the best record we shall probably ever have of Chaplin's methods comes to us in a series...