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...only the body posture, the gestures, which enable you to determine what he's really thinking. ? I worked more on the business of gestures and postures, what you call the "acting," than I did on anything else in this book. That's because for this story I needed to convey the internalization...
...describes as employees who "don't emphasize self-promotion and don't want to be heroes and work 18 hours a day." Logitech is best known for producing stylish computer mice and an array of other computer products and tech services. De Luca, a native of Rome, tries to convey the message to B's that he and other top executives identify with them. Country-club memberships and other perks that might breed class resentment are frowned upon; everyone flies coach, including the CEO. De Luca roams the halls to chat with lower-level staffers and encourages everyone...
What genuinely excited him was the roaring palette of the Post-Impressionists, the way that Gauguin or Van Gogh pumped color to convey feeling, without regard to whether a green face had ever been green in reality. This turned the key in Chagall's mind. Whole floods of vermillion and cobalt and purple came forward. It was this discovery he had in mind when he wrote, "I brought my objects with me from Russia. Paris shed its light on them...
...though I relished it as a piece of fiction, as a film, as well as a truth: better drama than the West Wing any day. Tony Blair sits there in a clean white shirt, no jacket and a striped tie, trying desperately through equally desperate hand gestures to convey his good intentions. Our reason was good, he argues—more than good, it was humane, there was a danger, those weapons of mass destruction are serious and Saddam Hussein is even more so, both for us and for his people...
...Massachusetts, is wearing a button-down, long-sleeve tattersall shirt, khaki pants and topsiders. He is surrounded by about 100 supporters, many of them young people toting signs. There is a Kerry truck blaring music. "It doesn't get much better than this," he says, a statement meant to convey enthusiasm but which comes off as Kerry's awkward guess at what a politician ought to be saying in such circumstances...