Word: blinks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Pickens, the chairman of Mesa Petroleum (1984 sales: $413 million), an oil and gas producer with 650 employees, has gone eyeball to eyeball with the biggest, strongest and sometimes least loved of all U.S. firms, oil companies, and forced them to blink. Indeed, just the fear of Pickens has sent energy giants scrambling to merge with one another. Says Joseph Fogg III of the investment banking firm Morgan Stanley: "You would have to go back to the past century, to people like Jay Gould and Jim Fisk, to find someone who has had an equivalent impact on a major American...
...ROMANCE WITH a twist: Boy meets girl, boy gives girl bomb, boy loses girl. And, like a good love story, it ends with boy and girl walking off happily into the sunset. In between the meeting and the losing, however, there's so much plot that if you blink, you might be permanently in the dark. But if you don't mind a movie that makes you think (or if you've read the John Le Carre novel), the film version of Little Drummer Girl is worth the extra effort...
Which may be the reason ceremonies were invented: to hold time still by repeated practices, so that it would be difficult, or beside the point, to identify a particular date or age. Blink your eyes these next two weeks, and step out of history. Are we in London, Athens, Rome? Is that Carl Lewis or Coroebus of Elis? Time has no business in these events, which makes the Olympics a kind of illusion...
...river, nothing more. And nothing less: seen well, the currents and eddies that quicken, disappear and roil to the surface again during two generations of an ordinary family's journey are astonishing and mysterious. Fat-legged baby becomes child, becomes maiden, becomes mother, becomes crone. Which is real? Blink twice; the young hell raiser reappears as the sour pensioner. Which is illusion, hot sexuality or bitter recollection...
Back when Kuhn began his watch, someone quizzed him: "Quick, name two catchers on the St. Louis Browns in the early '40s." Without a blink, Kuhn replied, "Swift and Mancuso." But Ueberroth required a moment to think before mentioning Cincinnati Pitcher Ewell Blackwell among his favorite old players...