Word: brashness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Back in 1982, a brash newcomer called Compaq Computer sprang up to clone IBM personal computers. Last week Compaq became a virtual clone of IBM, the company. The computer maker will pay some $9 billion for Digital Equipment, a dented dynamo of a company based in Framingham, Mass., in a deal that will complete the transformation of Compaq into a global provider of everything from handheld computers to the monster machines that power corporate networks and the Internet. The buyout creates a behemoth with $37 billion in revenues that trails only the $78 billion IBM. "In the early...
DIED. DAWN STEEL, 51, brash, market-savvy studio chief; of a brain tumor; in Los Angeles. In her merchandising days at Penthouse, Steel learned to recognize a hot product, whether it was a phallic amaryllis plant, Gucci-labeled toilet paper (her own invention) or, later at Paramount, a movie like Flashdance or Top Gun. She was fired while giving birth to her daughter, but rebounded in true celluloid style, becoming the first woman to head a major studio: Columbia Pictures...
...young, attractive Southern lawyer trying to beat the system. A stunningly beautiful victim turned love interest. A brash villain with dozens of paranoia-fueling spies. Sound familiar? It is the John Grisham recipe for success. Over the past decade, Grisham has shamelessly repackaged and regurgitated the formulaic legal thriller eight times under slightly different veils...
That self-confidence and the brash, open method of the offense has typified the old-look new-look Crimson. Same old running game, brand new punch and unprecedented success...
When I first met Harold, I realized he was a character straight out of one of his books: brash, aggressive, generous, flamboyant. It was 1972, and I was a fairly unknown writer. Harold had read my book Sinners and liked it. He signed a copy of The Betsy, "For Jackie Collins. Beautiful authors have an advantage for openers--but when they can really write, it's positively unfair." What encouragement--I was thrilled...