Word: maserati
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...toilet violently discharge its contents over an adversary--an episode that was, probably wisely, omitted from the film. Even the gods come off hipper, and enhanced by mnemonic imagery. Who could forget that Apollo is god of the sun after he turns up in a flying red convertible Maserati Spyder...
...worst thing about the Prius is that it has given people in Hollywood a way out of the natural order of status competition. If you want your friends and associates to think you're more successful than you are, you should have to waste $130,000 on a Maserati. These days, no one owns any other kind of hybrid, because you can't tell from a distance that they're hybrids. If GM made a car shaped like a crying planet, it could give our government all its money back. (See the history of the electric...
...dollars.” Ironically, while Smiff tries to exude cool, he merely achieves a parody of adult rappers. Big boys don’t roll in go-karts. Smiff can dream all he wants that he’ll pull up to his junior prom in a Maserati, but it’s not happening. Smiff is a 13-year-old wannabe and, while he’ll get older, it is doubtful that he’ll ever be half as cool as he thinks he is. While Smiff receives a bought-and-paid...
When Lehman Brothers calls up [Treasury Secretary Hank] Paulson, what do you expect them to say? "Gosh, I got to worry about my Maserati or my plane payments?" No. They call up and shriek about systemic risk. Come on. Investment banks have been going bankrupt for hundreds of years and the world has still somehow survived. This approach has never worked. This is what the Japanese did in the 1990s. They refused to let anyone fail. And they had zombie banks and zombie companies. The way the system is supposed to work is when we have bad times, the assets...
...professional culture seemingly predicated on aggravation and obfuscation. "We have Western ambitions, but the process used to achieve those ambitions is Russian," says Joffé, the Oscar-nominated director of The Killing Fields and The Mission. "It's like being given Lada parts and being expected to make a Maserati...