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...investment were ignored because adhering to them would discourage even starting the project. Department 260 was high in risk and cost, but if it worked it would yield far more than its price tag. O'Rourke, in persuading the company's directors to pump money into the project, was blunt: "I figured if we could produce $30 million to $50 million a year in sales, and it cost just $15 million to build, that was a good deal...
...today's behavioral standards, the Continental Op is a head case. But his blunt vernacular helped to establish the voice that influenced generations of American writers. Like that other homegrown art form, jazz, the hard-boiled style relied on a formula but encouraged improvisation. James M. Cain (The Postman Always Rings Twice) counterpointed violence with steamy sexuality; Chandler's signature note of sarcastic charm can be heard in the opening of his 1936 story Goldfish: "I wasn't doing any work that day, just catching up on my foot-dangling." Currently, Parker's Spenser sings the best sassy blues: "Ideal...
Shultz, though he has long been an advocate of sticking with SALT II, was blunt. At a meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Halifax, N.S., he described the agreement, which would have expired in 1985, as "obsolete, unratified and being violated." He stressed that the Administration is interested in drastic reductions in nuclear arsenals and said that from now on the U.S. will decide its arms policy on Soviet behavior, including human rights violations and actions in Afghanistan, Nicaragua and Cambodia...
...face, broad and fleshy, with dark-ringed eyes and a gap-toothed smile; the body, stocky and powerful, slightly uncomfortable in the boxy blue suits; and the hands, strong and blunt like small shovels--all combine to give him the look of one of the proud immigrants who toiled in the caissons deep below the East River to build the Brooklyn Bridge. A laborer, a man capable of bearing heavy weights, a man of explosive passions and simple pleasures. Someone strong. Someone you do not want to tangle with...
...widely reprinted ad for Britain's Family Planning Association that pictured a young man with a bulging abdomen and asked, "Would you be more careful if it was you that got pregnant?" The Saatchis aroused London's sleepy advertising industry with ads that ran the gamut from funny to blunt to dazzling. Their celebrated 90-sec. TV spot for British Airways seemed to show the entire island of Manhattan coming in for a landing at London's Heathrow Airport, a metaphor for the millions of passengers that the airline carries across the Atlantic...