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...synths, the funk came like a double shot of adrenaline and a breath of fresh air. The biggest response, other than to Mira dropping a booty ghetto-tech track at the end of her set, was the ominous “Pino Pomo.” From Rest Proof Clockwork, the track’s sinfully simple hip-hop pulse was a revelation in this context...
Mattel and Hasbro have struggled for years with graying product lines and supply-chain snafus that, like clockwork each holiday season, resulted in shortages of the hottest toys. To woo investors back, each made forays into electronics and software, with disastrous results. Hasbro, after losing $200 million on an interactive division and website, sold both ventures for $100 million early this year. Mattel in 1999 bought educational-software maker The Learning Co. for $3.5 billion, only to unload it this year for an "undisclosed sum," which analysts say was virtually...
...PSLM cultivation of a successful media profile can be attributed to their clockwork organization, savvyness, and sheer willpower. “I would call our approach to media relations dogged,” says Madeleine S. Elfenbein ’04. “We went in there with the approach that this is big news and we had the courage of our convictions to transform that belief into action. The media was drawn to us because we looked serious, and we were. We were on top of our game...
...Like clockwork, as the first firefighter entered the building, the scriptwriters (a.k.a rumor mill) arrived on the scene to fill in the plot details. Fire “experts” emerged from the crowd, each with a different theory as to how the fire had started. Some said that the boiler blew up in a ball of flames—after all, we have had trouble recently with our hot water. Others were sure that the grill had caught on fire, which they could tell very obviously by the smoke’s aroma—something akin...
...live show was always good, always right. Now it was 8 p.m. Bulova Watch time, and, says Houseman, "At that instant, quite regularly week after week, with not one second to spare, the buffoonery stopped. Suddenly out of chaos, the show emerged - delicately poised, meticulously executed, precise as clockwork, smooth as satin." No one doubts that the show?s success was due to the commanding, seductive man standing on a platform above all the rest. "At the start of every broadcast," Herrmann recalled, "Orson was an unknown quantity. As he went along his mood would assert itself and the temperature...