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...affect America's special relationship with Israel, which is already privy to many U.S. military secrets. "We are shocked and saddened that something like this might occur," said State Department Spokes man Charles Redman. "We have been in touch with the Israelis to try to get to the bottom of this." In Tel Aviv, a Foreign Ministry spokesman denied all knowledge of the matter...
...doesn't matter what you look like or who you are." Susan Fisher, senior vice president of New York's Manufacturers and Traders Trust, agrees. Says she: "This bank wouldn't care if I was a purple frog. All that matters is what I can do for the bottom line." Atlantic Richfield Treasurer Camron Cooper manages $25 billion in company assets and insists that being a woman has nothing to do with her job. "I am the treasurer of Atlantic Richfield," she says, "not the female treasurer...
...Bruce Jenner, Isaacson, 36, has perfected the art of dealing with the nonsense and the no-nonsense attitudes of stars. He cajoles, he flatters, but he produces. "Hollywood's based on taking care of business," he says. "We get it done. We make it happen. For me the bottom line is getting the result I'm asked to give." Among his 90 or so celebrity clients: John Travolta, Arm-Margret, Christopher Reeve, Linda Evans, David Hasselhoff (Knight Rider), Olivia Newton-John, Dyan Cannon and Billy Crystal (who presumably would not look mahvelous without...
Rarely have cast and characters seemed so ideally matched from top to bottom. Jonathan Moore, looking like a foppish John Belushi, is Mr. Guppy, the ambitious law clerk who makes a hilariously premature proposal of marriage to Esther. Sylvia Coleridge is Miss Flite, the daft old regular at Chancery, who collapses one day and tingles with joy at being carried home by "the principals in Jarndyce and Jarndyce." Each takes part in what Vladimir Nabokov described as Dickens' "magic democracy," where even the tiniest characters have a vivid afterlife. This Bleak House, like the London fog of old, is hard...
...white enclave hemmed in by black neighborhoods, Elmwood has long been plagued by racial tensions. Angry whites there have accused real estate brokers of blockbusting, an old and devious practice of moving black families into a white neighborhood to frighten residents into selling at rock-bottom prices...