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...nowhere to become one of official Washington's brightest new Wunderkinder-and the youngest Assistant Secretary of the Treasury ever. Parsky serves Treasury Secretary William Simon as confidant, emissary and all-round Mr. Fixit. He sees Simon a dozen times daily and often closes his 14-hour workday chatting with his chief over soggy pizza and a couple of fingers of Scotch. With his wife and two children, Parsky sometimes spends Sunday, his only day off, at the Simon estate in Virginia...
...Look Now is one of those films which reminds us how few possibilities of the movie camera have been explored. Part of the reason why spiritual second sight is a subject so native to film is that the medium is still so spiritual. Its mostly workday techniques are still mysteries. The connection pervades films of the sinister all the way back to the trick shots in Nosferatu. If the current techniques may look hockey in a few years--as the story already does--it will be because they are so fundamental and used with such emotional strength...
Feisal must be the world's hardest-working King. Like many executives, he suffers from ulcers, which have forced him to pare his workday from 18 hours to 14 hours. When asked about his health, he sometimes replies: "Still living." He rises at dawn, prays-one of five daily prayer sessions-and rides in the front seat of a Chrysler New Yorker from his unostentatious villa to his small, paneled office in the green-roofed presidential palace in Riyadh. He never uses the sprawling $60 million palace built by the profligate Saud. When an interior decorator had a sumptuous...
...such Utopian units could also "bring down to humane size" the care of the young and elderly. As a model Coleman cites the residential community of the Society of Brothers, in upstate New York, which manufactures commercial toys. Unlike theirs, however, his groups would function only during the normal workday...
...woman or child who picks lettuce for a living begins work at daybreak and perhaps has a short rest period around 2 o'clock before finishing the twelve-hour workday. He uses a short-handled implement that keeps him bent over during that time, and while he picks he may be sprayed from above with pesticides. If he needs to urinate, he must find a place at the edge of the field, for normally there are no sanitary facilities provided. His two-room house might have electricity, but it probably has no sink, toilet, bath or shower. He typically receives...