Word: conning
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...con you into believing his dream," says Bill Atkinson, who by some estimates is the most gifted programmer at Apple. A company consultant, Guy Tribble, says that Jobs sets up what he calls "a reality-distortion field. He has the ability to make people around him believe in his perception of reality through a combination of very fast comeback, catch phrases and the occasional very original insight, which he throws in to keep you off balance." By whatever name?the dream, the Ditch, the rap, the reality-distortion field?fobs' unwavering ambition and ferocious will have caused a number...
...pair's adventures on the road (accompanied most of the way by John Mclntire, playing Whit's grandpa) are more in the nature of inconveniences than high drama. There are encounters with a cranky bull and a mean-minded con man who owes Red money, an interlude in a cathouse, and, most persistent, a girl named Marlene (Alexa Kenin), who has all the spunk she needs to become the singing star she dreams of being. Too bad she can't carry a tune...
...disparate elements that the film makers are trying to stick together for 48 Hrs. are a tough white cop with the soul of a beer barrel (Nick Nolte) and a jivey black con with the spirit of a peacock (Eddie Murphy of Saturday Night Live.) The former springs the latter from prison believing he can help trace a psychopathic former associate who has become a cop killer. There ensues a long, often well-staged but improbable chase through San Francisco. The sequence is enlivened by some reasonably well-written dialogue, as if Director Hill had revived The Odd Couple...
...that in people." His leisure time is limited to an occasional Jeep ride to a hilltop aerie he owns in Connecticut. He takes a robust pleasure in spending his "low six figure" income: "It's my only frivolous side. I buy a picture and then say, 'Sorry, Con Ed.' If I had money I would fill my walls with Ernst, Klee and Kandinsky...
...merits of bilateral reductions on nuclear weapons and an end to interventionism, where it belonged, onto the secondary issue of whether the Council should run the referendum. This situation was compounded by incomplete distribution of the student newsletter printed up for this referendum, in which the pro and con arguments were carefully presented. Although every student was supposed to receive a copy of this newsletter before the voting began, in several Houses they were left in stacks in the dining hall or House library. And no one in Dudley. House received one, because the Council twice voted down funds...