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...daughter are planning a TV mini-series on his life, and he talked to her about his longtime regimen of swimming and running ("before it became fashionable"), hoofing it with Gene Kelly in Anchors Aweigh ("he kind of danced down to me, which was wonderful of him") and Rocker Bruce Springsteen ("I think he is a tremendous performer"). Obviously, the Chairman of the Board knows something about some kinds of Bosses...
...that most of the clothes men wear around the Western regions of the planet are derived from sport or warfare. If that is so--and G. Bruce Boyer, a "private and corporate image consultant," believes it is--then there are rules to be obeyed. Mainstream men's fashion is the business of defining those rules, marketing them and playing subtle little games with them. In the boardroom or the law office, such rules are not flouted, never mind broken. They are nudged gently. The fold of a handkerchief in the breast pocket of a suit jacket, the width...
...casual association, not chronologically, and the ordering, even when playful (as in following Tangled Up in Blue with It's All Over Now, Baby Blue), gives even the most familiar tunes a fresh resonance. In many cases, too, the music is stronger, bolder than on the originals, since Compilers Bruce Dickinson, Don DeVito and Jeff Jones worked from the original tapes, which were then mastered digitally...
...front of him. One recent night, after gently tapping some Bull Durham tobacco into his rolling paper, Knox pulled tight the yellow drawstrings on the pouch. He moistened the paper, rolled the cigarette, lit it. Then he leaned over the bar and, in a soft voice, recited an old Bruce Kiskaddon verse about the dangers of an enraged cow: "Think a cow boy cain't run? Well you aint seen one sail/ When a cow blows her nose on some waddy's shirt tail...
...complex public works projects. It carries a price tag of $1.3 billion and has been a building for twelve years--so far. It will not be fully operational until the early 1990s, probably at the cost of another $2.3 billion. But when Interior Secretary Donald Hodel and Arizona Governor Bruce Babbitt switched on the huge pump of the Hassayampa water plant last Friday, dedicating the mammoth Central Arizona Project, they signaled the opening of a new and possibly contentious era throughout much of the West. Within the next few months, the maze of aqueducts, pumping stations, tunnels, siphons and control...