Word: coliseums
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Getting to see Steve Jobs at Apple is like having an audience with one of the later Roman Emperors, powerfully charismatic men who loved the adulation of the crowd in the Coliseum but made sure to put many veils between themselves and visitors. The object, it seems, is to drench you in anticipation...
...People simply want laptops more than they want desktops these days, and neither the adoration of the Coliseum nor the intimidation of the veiled Emperor will change this fundamental fact of the marketplace. Does that mean Jobs will be a softer touch to interview one of these days...
Along with "Beast" and "Beneath the Sea" there was "Earth Vs. the Flying Saucers" - ineradicable images of wrecked saucers slicing through the Capitol Dome - and "20 Million Miles to Earth," where Rome's Coliseum stood in for the Coney Island roller coaster. But by the end of the decade, the genre Harryhausen helped define was dying at the box office. Pop cinema was getting sexier and a lot more violent. As Ray later said about his unsuccessful 1969 picture "Valley of the Gwangi," "A naked dinosaur just was not outrageous enough...
Harvard defeated Yale 10-2 on Nov. 26 in Bright Hockey Center, but this time the Crimson had to play through cooling problems at Ingalls Rink, which caused the Yale men's hockey team game to be transferred to the New Haven Coliseum, and managed only...
...just people on the right like Katherine Harris and Ted Nugent who seem especially silly being likened to Parks. I first cringed at this "Rosa Parks c'est moi" phenomenon last October at Ralph Nader's lefty rally at Madison Square Garden. Ever sit in a coliseum full of people who think they're heroes? I was surrounded by thousands of well-meaning, well-fed white kids who loved it when filmmaker Michael Moore told them they should, like Rosa Parks, stand up to power, by which I think he meant vote for Nader so he could qualify for federal...