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Lujan's strength comes in part from a record of old-fashioned constituent service. "People know they can call me and get results," he says. Lujan has assigned seven of his 13 congressional staff members to chase down tardy Social Security checks and disentangle Government red tape. On the campaign trail, fueled by a breakfast of graham crackers and peanut butter, Lujan totes a briefcase crammed with "casework forms," on which he records complaints from constituents. He couples such efforts with well-aimed personal touches: birthday cards, sympathy notes and welcoming letters to district newcomers...
Noyes, who died in 1977, also developed a logo for Mobil with Chermayeff & Geismar Associates. This firm also created the fetching, letterless, four-color octagonal trademark for the Chase Manhattan Bank, probably the first completely abstract logo, whose design, says Chase, is supposed to "convey a sense of dignity and the dynamic purpose of the bank." The versatile and famous CBS eye was developed by Bill Golden, art director at CBS for 19 years. Currently, the leading imagemakers are Lippincott & Margulies, who created the Xerox logo and claim authorship of more than 2,200 others, including Uniroyal, RCA and ChemBank...
...when a neighborhood's real estate potential skyrockets, landlords look for a way to get the current residents out and the wealthier residents--who can pay higher rents or higher condominium prices--in. And there's no doubt that many landlords are unscrupulous enough to use arson to chase residents out. An extreme instance of such tactics was the 1979-80 string of condo conversions in already-high-rent areas, which was apparently responsible for a fourfold increase in Back Bay's arson rate, scaring off many renters who had resisted conversion...
...actor and writerdirector, in high-camp style. His first feature, Private Parts (1973), was a Psycho drama about a winsome lad who makes love to a lifesize, water-filled, clear plastic doll in the image of his beloved. In the mid-'70s Bartel made two manic car-chase movies, Death Race 2000 and Cannonball, whose plots inspired The Cannonball Run. For his presence in that film, Burt Reynolds was reportedly paid $5 million; for directing Death Race 2000, Bartel earned $5,000. Such are the rewards of B-plus moviemaking...
RESEMBLING NOTHING so much as Little Women gone wild, A Bloodsmoor Romance leads readers on a merry six hundred page chase after five nineteenth century sisters as they gallivant from their ancestral Bloodsmoor Valley to the Broadway stage, the lawless West the spirit world and back again. Written as a parody of a romance, Joyce Carol Oates latest novel excels in the form it spoofs. True to convention a prim but often hyperbolic narrator tells of shocking year undeniably romantic escapades with an unabashed use of italics and the results are hilarious...