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...bathroom, they say, and affords you a better chance of beating the crowd when you reach your final destination. To hell with efficiency; I always choose the window seat. And then I stare out. At the runway whizzing by, then at the crazily tilted world below as we climb, nose first, into the air. On clear days, I try to catch a glimpse of cities below. (Flying up the East Coast, you can make out all of Manhattan--the shape of the island, the green of Central Park, the shimmering top of each skyscraper.) On cloudy days, I spot...
When the board made clear it was looking for an outsider, the stock began to climb. That's because Wall Street believes that only outsiders can bring radical change to companies that desperately need it. Put Kodak in that category. Though the company enjoyed a healthy cash flow from sales of all those little yellow boxes of film, it never seemed able to get costs under control or high-tech products successfully launched. In spite of numerous restructurings, the company posted losses of $1.7 billion on revenues of $11.9 billion during the first nine months...
Although the play is primarily concerned with delivering excitement to its audience, it is quite satisfying on a cerebral level as well. Similar to Robert Altman's film "The Player," Deathtrap pushes the boundaries of ambition and expediency. How far can one go to achieve fame? Can you climb the ladder of success by pushing others to their death? Is one's drive to achieve one's goal stronger than one's love...
...psychiatrist attributed the polarization between the sexes in medicine to two causes: the tendency of women to fail to act aggressively and assertively, and the failure of men in power to assist and accommodate the women in their climb...
...suffered. Images, I remember, but images well-removed from my struggling, trying-to-climb-out-of-the-cellar Braves. A select few: Harvey's Wallbanging Brewers against the Indy 500 Cardinals in 1982; Dane Iorg, Don Denkinger, and Joaquin Andujar in 1985; Homer Hankies in 1987; Vin Scully screaming, "She is GONE!!" at Kirk Gibson and Chavez Ravine...