Word: colossuses
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...Occasionally an Asian film will shoot a spitball directly at the colossus. In Im Sang Soo's Korean drama A Good Lawyer's Wife, the lawyer's ailing father tartly observes, "Voting that Texas hick Bush for President-that's why Americans are so f---ed up." More often, though, Asian directors dip into the pool of cultural references created by the West and happily exploit them. Vishal Bharadwaj's Maqbool sets Macbeth in Bombay, with gangsters in the place of Scottish lairds, though this entertaining Indian epic owes as much to Scarface as to Shakespeare. The Tesseract, from...
...That did not happen. What emerged instead was a unipolar world, the U.S. bestriding the globe like a colossus, more dominant in every field of endeavor - economic, military, diplomatic, cultural, even linguistic - than any other nation since Rome...
That did not happen. What emerged instead was a unipolar world, the U.S. bestriding the globe like a colossus, more dominant in every field of endeavor--economic, military, diplomatic, cultural, even linguistic--than any other nation since Rome...
...billion stake in L'Oreal cosmetics--founded by her father in 1907--through a holding company. She and her daughter Francoise, 49, sit on the L'Oreal board, but no other family member works at the firm. When Freddie Heineken died last year, control of his brewing colossus passed to his daughter and sole heir, Charlene de Carvalho Heineken, 48. She lives in London with her banker husband and their five young children, and she has no involvement with day-to-day operations. Karl and Theo Albrecht, the secretive German brothers who rank as the richest people in Europe...
...family fortune. His son Michael was 28 when he joined the firm in 1971, and he became chairman a decade later. At the time, Otto Versand was a thriving German business with sales of about $2.5 billion. Today, recently renamed Otto GmbH & Co., it's a worldwide colossus with sales of $25 billion...