Word: exceptional
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...where the air is clear and there aren't any other studios," says Jobs, taking a gentle swipe at Hollywood. Up north they don't read the movie trades first thing in the morning; they don't gossip about A-list parties. There are no megadollar contracts--except for Lasseter's. Don't imagine for a minute, however, that Jobs is a Silicon Valley apologist. He sees the beauty--and the beast--in both places. "What Silicon Valley thinks is creative is a bunch of guys sitting around on a beat-up old couch thinking up jokes," he says...
...going there is smoother because folks with two-year terms get a lot sicker of spending almost every day of them fund-raising for the next election. The Republican Senate has been squashing this bill for years, and the smart money says 1999 will be no different. Except that McCain will go hoarse trying to make this issue the national hot-button that he?s always dreamed it would be. "I am not in the business of identifying individuals or attacking individuals," he said Thursday, struggling to keep the debate on some sort of high ground. "I am attacking...
...unforgiving plastic chair and waits alone for students to visit his office hours, though none ever do. Restaurant workers peer forlornly out from the one open counter, looking in vain for someone, anyone to serve. It's like you've set foot on the set of The Iceman Cometh, except O'Neill's drama now includes a giant, bizarre LED screen, the most conspicuous waste of energy at Harvard since the formation of the Undergraduate Council...
...that they mean to be intimidatingothey're quite friendly and a number of them won't look their interlocutors in the eye for more than three seconds. But strength lies in numbers, and the Kroks end up like punchmasters more than anything else, except that, as one Porcellian member points out to me, the Krokodiloes make their judgements based on some kind of objective merit. Krok showmanship comes through even in auditions; between numbers in any concert, the Kroks always clasp their hands together in front of them. As Hicks makes an announcement to the auditioners, the arc of singers...
...Geller's situation] has probably taken more of my time than anything else," he says. He refused further comment except to say "negotiations are underway...