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...First Boston Corp., a leading investment-banking house, has been a devoted stander for twelve years. Shinn, a Merrill Lynch alumnus who also had backaches, believes that tall desks are simply an outgrowth of evolution. Says he: "We crawled and walked on all fours before standing, so the upright posture is the most natural." Both Shinn and Birk are following in the tradition of Edward Allen Pierce, a Merrill Lynch founder who worked standing up until he was 90. Now several of Shinn's colleagues at First Boston have acquired the habit...
...summer of 1974, Concert Pianist Sharon Roubeck Dobkin suffered a series of seizures that left her with uncontrollable tremors, an inability to use her arms and legs or even hold her head upright. Two years and many doctors later, Dr. Melvin Van Woert of New York City's Mount Sinai Hospital identified the condition that ended her career: myoclonus, a nervous disorder that affects only 2,000 Americans. Van Woert had received a series of grants and special permission from the FDA to treat the disease with the experimental drug L-5HTP (L5-hydroxy-tryptophan), and Dobkin responded well...
...have violent revenge; a writing staff headed by a man (Bill Macy) who knows only three emotions-panic, depression and obsequiousness; the general hysteria surrounding the weekly production of a program that is broadcast live, without benefit of retakes. To guide him through all this in more or less upright condition, Swann is placed in the hands of a junior writer named Benjy Stone (Mark Linn-Baker) who is also a senior admirer of Swann's dashing screen image. They make an odd, but affecting couple: Swann teaching the boy something about the joys of irresponsibility, Benjy showing...
...bargaining table, impressing his Arab contacts with the few words of Arabic he learned at home and with his knowledge of Lebanese soccer scores. During one tense negotiation some years ago, an Arab leader broke into a string of expletives, which his translator diplomatically glossed over. Habib sat upright, his face split into a wide grin, and he roguishly wagged his finger at the Arab. Said he: "I don't know much Arabic, but I sure do know those words." The Arab leader laughed, warmed by Habib's directness. Pierre Gemayel, leader of Lebanon's Phalange Party...
Overhead, arcing tiers of lights blaze down on a few scattered folding chairs and an upright piano with a high sounding board. But the only significant illumination in Good is internal; this is a drama that takes place entirely inside one man's mind...