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There's no doubt that the executive's final choice was a wise one. "With Elbaz," says Richard Martin, curator of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute, "we are witnessing the arrival of a great talent." Elbaz and McCartney won more good reviews for their fall collections, shown in March. He featured luxurious skirt suits accented with fur or pink; she offered more alluring pants and rich dresses of blue satin...
...give Joe credit and quick to worry about someone stealing the process. In the company Joe has an ally (Ricky Jay) and a No. 1 fan, a perkily sarcastic secretary (Rebecca Pidgeon). But Joe is tempted to confide in Jimmy Dell (Steve Martin), a mysterious fellow with a wise warning: "Always do business as if the person you're doing business with is trying to screw you. Because most likely they are. And if they're not, you can be pleasantly surprised...
...than its ability to roll with a punch as hard as the one from Asia and still squeeze out a fairly good year. Some reasons for that strength: rising productivity, which is at last increasing workers' real wages without pushing up prices, and government policies that Sinai pronounces "eerily" wise. Most important, of course, is the swing from gargantuan budget deficits in the 1980s and early '90s to an expected small surplus this fiscal year, with more to come. Kaufman notes a continuing boom in business investments and a new surge in housing--both "very unusual" for an expansion going...
...Jack is a figure that rockets off the page. In the film Stanton is less grand and less sexy, and Travolta plays it subdued, a tad mopish. His smile looks startled, as if he had just sniffed ammonia. He has the hardest job: while everyone else gets to crack wise, he has to make political platitudes sound like poetry and Stanton's skunkish behavior smell almost sweet. His Stanton is a large man unsure whether he's big enough for a job he would kill...
...found Gomorrah. But the President, whether real or fictional, used to get gentler handling. In 1942's Yankee Doodle Dandy, when George M. Cohan, played by James Cagney, meets Franklin D. Roosevelt, the President was played by an actor, seen largely from behind, who sounded so mature and wise that he might as well have been Moses. Two decades later, in Sunrise at Campobello, there is Roosevelt again, this time played by Ralph Bellamy as the last word in ripening decencies. Nobody in those days thought of making a movie about F.D.R. and his sometime mistress Lucy Mercer Rutherford...