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...when Lewis was selling assets to finance his $1 billion leveraged buyout of the company. Only later did McCarroll meet Lewis' wife (and now widow) Loida, whose successful turnaround of the company is the subject of this week's story. "She's just as smart, savvy and shrewd as the next guy, but without all the macho and bluster," says McCarroll, who has covered his share of corporate movers and shakers, including Bill Gates, Michael Milken and Donald Trump. "I can see how her adversaries often make the mistake of underestimating...
...turns out, the domestication of funk, which might have made Goldin quaint, works for her in a way. It reminds us of her indisputable virtue: funk, undomesticated. Whatever the pleasures of Rent, which are shrewd and abundant, it offers the Lower East Side in captivity, fetchingly confined within Broadway conventions. And those Klein ads--is that grime in the models' bangs or only hair gel caking? When Goldin descends below the taboo line, she's not just down there on a visit. She lives there, or she has. She reminds us of what the real world at night looks like...
...looking for a probable pot smoker, but the brisk weather has sent the alternateens indoors. I circle the area twice and suddenly, I spot one. He's a high-schooler right out of an Urban Outfitters catalog. Sitting on a skateboard and smoking a cigarette, he has the shrewd look of a punk-rock star plastered across his face. His brown hair, shaved on the sides and the back, has enough red streaks in it to piss off any parent...
...political moment when waffling can be a shrewd move and compromise has become the order of the day, Faye Wattleton seems almost a relic. The telegenic and controversial head of Planned Parenthood from 1978 to 1992, Wattleton winces at phrases like "common ground" when applied to the subject of reproductive rights for women. For Wattleton, whose mother was a traveling Fundamentalist preacher for the Church of God, right and wrong--like heaven and hell--are very clearly defined...
They are, in a way, easy marks. Primo, the chef, is a shy and brooding purist, utterly unable to compromise one of his exquisite risottos, no matter what the market demands. Secondo, the maitre d', shoots his cuffs with elegant panache but is not quite the shrewd and worldly businessman he thinks he is. When Pascal proposes that they throw a scrumptious, sumptuous banquet, promising to supply a celebrity (Louis Prima, the old-time band leader) whose patronage, Pascal assures them, will bring saving glamour and publicity to their enterprise, they invest the last of their capital in the plan...