Word: leviathan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...name Starbucks, referring to the first mate in Melville's leviathan novel, is meant to evoke the romance of the high seas and the seafaring tradition of the early coffee traders. So claims the recent paperback, Pour Your Heart Into It, written by the company's CEO. Starbucks connotes a product that is unique and mystical, yet purely American. Before reaching that purely American solution, however, the store was called Il Giornale, a name which aficionados thought captured the romance of the authentic espresso experience. In the battle between romance of the high seas and romance of the authentic espresso...
...name Starbucks, referring to the first mate in Melville's leviathan novel, is meant to evoke the romance of the high seas and the seafaring tradition of the early coffee traders. So claims the recent paperback, Pour Your Heart Into It, written by the company's CEO. Starbucks connotes a product that is unique and mystical, yet purely American. Before reaching that purely American solution, however, the store was called II Giornale, a name which aficionados thought captured the romance of the authentic espresso experience. In the battle between romance of the high seas and romance of the authentic espresso...
...corrupted, and evil abounds. There is no redemption. There are no happy endings. It is an incredibly dark vision but one that is undoubtedly held be Walker, the former Tower Records clerk-turned-angst-ridden-screen- writer, who must have kept of a copy of Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan handy when he sat down to write his first film, Seven, and his new one, 8MM. Both films share an incredibly bleak outlook of the human condition, and while these visions are certainly helped by the director, their essence lies with Walker, who with just two screenplays has established himself...
...which investment bankers make decisions are amoral, the decisions they make can determine whether working people have the jobs that allow them to feed their families and whether communities thrive or atrophy. The investment bankers and consultants guiding the merger of Mobil and Exxon into one great leviathan seem little concerned with the 9,000 factory workers expected to be left jobless as a result...
...Angeles, after 14 years, the Leviathan surfaces at last: Moby Museum, a.k.a. the Getty Center, sheathed in light tan aluminum and elegantly rugged honey-colored Italian travertine, nearly 1 million sq. ft. of it at roughly $1,000 per sq. ft., designed by Richard Meier and perched on a 710-acre hilltop above the San Diego Freeway in the Brentwood section of Los Angeles. The Getty is the most expensive arts complex and by some calculations the most expensive building in American history. Large expectations ride on it as both a cultural institution and an emblematic focus for Los Angeles...