Word: working
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...conveniently arranged sheets, no angst, no kisses shot from the back: in 10 hot minutes [this work] opens the closet of gay...sexuality and chucks in a neon stick of dynamite...
...YEAR IN ARTS Match the excerpt from TIME to the photo of the artist or work...
...which he targets daily. Justin Martin, author of Greenspan: The Man Behind Money (Perseus; 284 pages; $28), neatly points out that this is "a rather too fine distinction." But he spends even less time than Woodward probing the matter and then mysteriously concludes that such a strategy wouldn't work anyway. Millions of people have come to believe that Greenspan purposely moves stock prices. They're wrong, according to both authors. Yet we get no proof...
...There was suddenly all this pressure to be profitable," says founding editor Rich Schwerin. "We were working our tails off on projects that would never see the light of day." Nothing seemed to work: the site went through three redesigns, repositioned itself to focus mainly on e-commerce and even sponsored the big screen at Giants games across the street. But TheMan.com's attendance was disappointing, certainly not enough to keep the investors at Highland Capital happy. "People were like, 'Who are you? Another Maxim? Another Details?" says James Lombardi, site product manager and brother of co-founder Steve Lombardi...
When it folded, 35 employees remained; more than a month later, around 25 of them were still out of work. Lui was off climbing Mount Kilimanjaro and was incommunicado. The Giants were shaping up for another season. And TheMan.com stood as a sobering reminder of the perils of trying to get rich quick...