Word: skyscraperism
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There are some sweet moments: Mick's casual rescue of a suicidal jumper from a skyscraper ledge; a momentary alliance with some Japanese tourists who prove to be funnily adept at karate; a friendship with a black man determined to project a menacing image, though he is actually a peaceable...
For Wells, that seems to be part of an unwritten job description: to act as the sensible alter ego to the irrepressible Eisner. At Disney, unlike most corporations, it is the chairman who comes up with some of the most outlandish schemes, which subordinates must either make happen or give...
One of the happiest additions to the birthday celebrations is the publication of a charming book titled Superman at Fifty: The Persistence of a Legend, edited by Dennis Dooley and Gary Engle (Octavia Press; $16.95), which provides nostalgics with a cotton-candy dose of Superman lore. Like the proposition that...
WHEN YOU think of difficult jobs, you think of high-risk jobs. Policemen face death daily. So do emergency room doctors. Skyscraper window washers know that grievous bodily harm is just a wrong step away. But then again, these jobs feature a certain amount of excitement, a few shots of...
The Nabila is not for ordinary billionaires. This gilded 282-ft. yacht marks its owner as reigning king of the big spenders. And who might that be now? Last week it was confirmed that the new skipper is Donald Trump, 41, the Manhattan skyscraper builder and casino czar. Trump paid...