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Feldstein's biggest challenge will be winning the ear of the President. The backgrounds of the two men - one a Bronx-born intellectual, the other an outdoorsy, instinctive Westerner - could not be more different. Reagan too has strongly held opinions on economics, and some Administration policymakers have quit because they were unable to influence the President's self-taught views...
...most ways it was a rather standard gangland slaying. The victim was driving his 1977 Lincoln Continental through The Bronx in New York City one evening last week when a passenger in the car suddenly placed a .38-cal. pistol to the back of his head and fired a single shot. The Continental swung out of control and smashed into a parked car. The assassin jumped out and climbed into a trailing red Buick LeSabre, which then sped away. But the victim happened to be Nat Masselli, 31, son of Mobster William ("Billy the Butcher") Masselli, 55. And that made...
...produced almost as many self-portraits as Rembrandt, who painted himself 60 times. The first face of Raphael Soyer is dated 1917. The artist printed it on a sheet of cheap paper with engraving plates he heated on the gas burner in the family kitchen in The Bronx. Though coarsely crosshatched, its composition a tad askew, the engraving is a riveting reflection of the artist at 18, staring at the mirror with the same unswerving, enigmatic gaze that he would cast upon the world for the next 60-odd years of self-portraiture. By 1920 Soyer had a lithographic crayon...
...Steinbrenner's Yankees now display certain characteristics of Rome's later days? Does the owner rant like Caligula? Will he select his horse to be the next manager? One drives up the Major Deegan Expressway in The Bronx, and in the summer dusk one may see a few blazes set by arsonists burning down the ghetto for the insurance. There in the distance Yankee Stadium glows with its wonderful radioactive light: a gem in a slum. One comes early for the batting practice; Frank Sinatra sings New York, New York over the p.a. system. Up in the broadcast...
...Some ostentatiously unload home computers on the first day and effectively guarantee a summer of alienation right there. Others talk only about science fiction, and some boast prodigious drug habits. These are the kids who read the newspapers and know every hatted of the Vietnan War. Many come from Bronx High School of Science, where they win debating trophies or excel at ping pong...