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...Look Back is a good album but not a perfect one; a few of the numbers such as Ain't No Big Thing tend to drag. But there are moments of dark, understated glory here that make you forgive the occasional missteps. The title track is the headiest moment; when Hooker sings, "I'm gonna live for the future/ not the past," using that rumbling, Richter-scale voice to toss off decades of heartbreak, the listener is touched with a redemptive awe. Hooker is 79 years old now, and has all but stopped touring. "I'll go out once...
...infant Web, which transforms the Internet's isolated, text-based sites into one vast, hyperlinked, multimedia-capable network, got Clark thinking--and acting. He and Andreessen founded Mosaic Communications (soon renamed Netscape) and built a business around an improved Web browser. The result was one of history's headiest corporate ascents, as the ubiquitous Netscape Navigator browser helped spawn the world's startling online stampede. "The Internet was the information highway everyone was looking for," says Clark. "They just hadn't recognized...
Barry Diller is sitting at his regular booth at the heart of the Four Seasons grillroom, basking in attention. Even in the headiest of Manhattan's power lunchrooms, Diller, with his bullethead and designer-mogul aura, manages to draw a crowd. Henry Kissinger nuzzles onto his banquette for a brief chat; other members of the business and media elite stop to pay homage. To each, Diller offers a greeting or a quip, then gets back to his enthusiasm of the moment. He is talking about home shopping...
...headiest, the aim of 20th century politics was the transformation of man and society by means of power. This great project -- politics as redemption -- has ended in failure on a breathtaking scale: not just economic and political but also ecological, spiritual and, not surprising for an enterprise of such overweening hubris, moral. The deeper meaning of the overthrow of communism is the realization that man can shape neither history nor society by Five-Year Plans, and that attempts to contradict this truth must end in the grotesque. The revulsion with politics reflects the view that when politicians go about tinkering...
Even among the legions of successful young investors operating on Wall Street in the headiest days of the bull market, David Bloom, 23, stood out as a precocious hotshot. Armed with little more than a good line and glib self- assurance, the son of a Manhattan pizza-restaurant owner persuaded scores of clients to give him some $10 million so that he could play the stock market on their behalf. For some time, Bloom's clients were satisfied: quarterly reports for their accounts showed savvy trades and fat profits...