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...ideas for its clients. Ovitz has cultivated close ties with Manhattan gliterary agent Morton Janklow, who represents such best-selling authors s Judith Krantz, Danielle Steel and Jackie Collins. That collaboration has produced some 100 hours of network mini-series. Now Ovitz hopes to work an even richer literary vein. In December Janklow announced a surprise merger with longtime ICM literary agent Lynn Nesbit, whose clients include Tom Wolfe, Ann Beattie and Michael Crichton. According to sources close to the negotiations, the publishing coup was arranged by the invisible hand of Michael Ovitz...
...same vein, Walter added that while heappreciated the IOP fellowship, he was wary ofHarvard's "bias towards the manager...
...chief author of a new antidrug law calling for stiffer sentences for traffickers, more support for police, and better rehabilitation programs. However, her original version let stand the provision allowing "modest" amounts of drugs for personal use. Craxi blocked passage of the bill, and in the process touched a vein of public support: a survey by the newsweekly Panorama shows that 57% of Italians think users ought to be punished. Jervolino was irate: "Prison never helped any drug user." But a revised version of the new legislation that will outlaw drug possession in the future is still awaiting approval...
...similar vein, Chalon Emmons of Mather House said, "It is a nice honor. I am happy with it and my father left a nice message on my machine...
...images, feeds the mass mind's need for simple ideas. It is also savagely critical of expert forensic witnesses in criminal cases. In short, it is a movie relentlessly true to its own belief that what is too quickly grasped may be misunderstood. Streep's performance is in that vein, awesomely tough-minded. No actress has ever played a victim more austerely. Flat-voiced, pinching off every temptation to high drama, she refuses to force this character on us. Instead, she asks us to search, as she must have had to, for the hard, pure, exemplary and not easily endearing...