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...generating more buzz than a Yahoo IPO? Surely everybody already suspects that the Internet bull market is a shell game. But who would have guessed that one of the minor players, having failed to find money dumb enough to make him rich, would get his payback with so deft a pen? Nobody comes off clean in this vengeful little book, not the venomous heirs of Robert Maxwell nor the philistine publishers of Windows magazine nor the executives at Time Inc. (where the author worked briefly as a consultant). "I'm a writer," Wolff tells his business partner at the book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Burn Rate | 8/10/1998 | See Source »

...accelerates, and the bad guys' van ends up on the tracks instead. Wham! Kapow! Impressive fireball! Fortunately, one of the bad guys is still alive and has time to look up and react--Wuh-oh!--just before the van is hit by a second train on parallel tracks, a deft directorial callback to an earlier scene in the same movie when another bad guy had time to look up and react just before being run over by a truck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blam! Kapow! Eat Your Peas! | 7/27/1998 | See Source »

...groove, Depeche Mode (notthe original or a cover band) tapped into asuperficial vein of youthful kiddieness thatB-Side could never duplicate. Setting the roomablaze, Depeche Mode provided the perfectcomplement of frenetic entertainment to the othergroups' down-to-earth nature. With twosynthesizers, a spastic guitarist/vocalist deckedout in Ramones style, a deft percussionist,dancing feet and techno lullabies titled"Sardines" and "Depeche Mode is Not for You,"Depeche Mode was a necessary comic relief thatdeserved third place in the judging...

Author: By Peter A. Hahn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fun in Pforzheimer | 4/17/1998 | See Source »

Legendarily deft, Jordan was trying to pull off some of the fanciest footwork of his career--dancing out of the box he put himself in last month when he called a press conference to say he had helped Monica Lewinsky find a job solely out of the goodness of his heart and that she had assured him there was no sexual relationship between her and Clinton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton's Crises: What Jordan Knew | 3/2/1998 | See Source »

...towering 6'2, with a mere 10 pounds separating the two. Their size and raw strength provide a presence in the corners, but their styles are better suited for the open ice. It is there where Bala and Moore can exploit the opposing defense with their quickness and deft stick-handling skills...

Author: By Rebecca A. Blaeser, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fearsome Freshmen: Moore and Bala | 2/19/1998 | See Source »

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