Word: cool
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Jackie Chan is considered cool, and despite the fact that Legend of Drunken Master has long been a favorite among his Asian fans and won Best Action Choreography (Chia-Liang Liu) at the 1995 Hong Kong Film Awards, it's a difficult film to digest if you're in a semi-serious or just a typical mood. It's very difficult not to appreciate the humor of a line (and I am serious that this line was in the movie) that goes, "Fei-Hung, don't be ashamed. When we were little kids, we used to go naked...
...Well, it's never really jam style. Philosophically we object to "I can improvise all day, and do that Phish thing and we'll all just play together and it will be cool." When someone has an idea, and some guitar riffs, they'll come in and throw them out, usually with a couple of verses and a chorus, or some sort of progression. From there the group will decide if it's cool, or if it needs some work. I would call it a collaborative process; the arrangement of a song is usually hashed out by consensus...
JUDGMENT CALL Cool, if you stick to old-school Asian designs and steer clear of new-age Lava lamps...
...larger firm; the other was a smaller Web-design outfit. Each had or was planning an ever so hip open-office design for its new digs near the university in Ithaca, N.Y. Sims heard the same struggle unfolding in each: the top manager was committed to the cool look that identified the outfit as a successful new-economy type; the employees were demanding offices with walls and, gasp, doors. The manager of the first group was "worried," says Sims, "that 'if I force them too much, they'll go down the road.'" The founder of the second company, Sims reports...
...take long for Rob Frasca, CEO of Internet Venture Works, a firm based in Boston that builds Internet businesses with traditional companies, to make the change. When he started Galt Technologies in 1993 in an old warehouse in the Oakland district of Pittsburgh, Pa., Frasca wanted a "really cool" open design. "Within two months," he says, "all the employees had built their own makeshift barriers, using bookshelves, whiteboard, coatracks and Pier 1 folding screens. I quickly realized that while CEOs and marketing directors love the marketing ploy of high-tech cool, it doesn't work." His current space...