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...added dramatically to the financial instability during '08 and early '09." Gasparino's news bulletins (or rumormongering, depending on your view) on CNBC during that period often moved the market. He's well aware of the animosity. "They don't like the fact that I called them on the carpet," he told me. "I mean, you are not going to see a lot of Wall Street guys hanging out at my book party...
...most powerful instruments, a formal system that could confine Expressionist excesses. In the catalog to the MOMA show, which was organized by curators Barry Bergdoll and Leah Dickerman, there's a color photograph of Gropius' righteously Cartesian office, with a right-angular chair resting on a grid-patterned carpet and a grid-patterned tapestry hanging on one wall...
...where to land. They could have done it in a Boeing, too. But it was helpful to their immediate cause that they were working with the product of [Airbus engineer Bernard] Ziegler's mind, in which computers took care of the menial chores, then conjured up a magic carpet for them...
...Harvard Club of Boston, located in the heart of Back Bay, boasts a lobby lined with dark wood panels. A crimson carpet covers its floor. It is the kind of place that conjures up images of graying men in well-cut suits lounging in leather armchairs, nursing a scotch in one hand and a smoking cigar in the other, all the while discussing politics or stocks...
...Veteran character actor Michael Sheen, who plays a vampire leader in the films, worked the red carpet with his starstruck daughter. He clearly enjoyed being a Twilight hero to his own fan. "It's all downhill for me in terms of my daughter," Sheen admitted as the beaming girl met author Stephenie Meyer on the carpet. "I asked my daughter in priority terms who she wanted to meet the most, and she said Ashley Greene." Clinching Father of the Year, Sheen moments later made a beeline for Greene with his daughter in tow. "She's going to remember this...