Word: cools
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...matter how they baited him, Gates held his famous temper and stuck to his message: Microsoft is not a monopoly; anyone can upend the topsy-turvy software industry with a cool new idea. As he put it later, "At the end of the day there's only one question: Are we allowed to innovate? We'll make sure that this boils down to that one question...
...have to be really straightforward andstrict," Sykes said. "They do test your limits tosee what they can get away with... You just haveto keep your cool." Of course, that's true of anychild, but at Mission Hill the challenge is toestablish an elusive rapport with students fromwhat seems like a different world...
...album goes, mixing Frank Zappa into a black sheep cover of Frederick Knight's northern soul lament, "Lonely," taking a cool, excited, but never tense reigns over the popular arrangements and sound bites of Western culture. On "Marbles," Kermit's soft spoken rap pulls a danceable pulse out of the rambling cowboy melody that eventually surrenders to a rousing disco-esque horn section. Only the fifth track, "Rubber Band," goes too far. Where the rest of Stupid, Stupid, Stupid makes a cheerfully boisterous rewiring of the listener's head, "Rubber Band" pummels it with a crow...
...Lebowski carries high expectations, coming on the heels of the Coens' unexpectedly successful Fargo, but these eccentric filmmakers don't seem to care much about expectations. Where Fargo was a cool, controlled story with precise bits of black humor, The Big Lebowski lets it all hang loose...
Bridges perfectly captures the Dude's most essential quality: he's a happy man. No matter what insane complications the Coen brothers toss in his path, Bridges navigates his character through the knotty story with a remarkable laid back cool. He's so comfortable in this character that it's easy to forget that he's acting, even though it's not easy to pull off a performance as utterly nonchalant as this...