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...eerily insightful voice-overs in the vein of 1999’s head-spinning “Fight Club” and the sardonic conversations of “Office Space,” “waydowntown” caricaturizes the monotony of the nine-to-five desk job and the homogenization of today’s modern urban life...
Anyhow, Foer says he isn’t aiming for public acclaim. “I wrote the book in these incredibly intimate settings—on my laptop propped up while I’m in bed, or at a desk, or in a room where I’m alone,” he says. “And then people read the book in their own intimate settings—in bed, in the bathtub, in the easy chair at home. Connecting these two intimate experiences is what publishing a book is all about...
...collar of his brown polo shirt is worn over the jacket collar. There is a Western-style belt of silver and turquoise, and something of a belly: the paunch of a man of 64 who was an athlete 40 years ago. He looks like Spencer Tracy now. His desk looks like a pile of raked leaves. On walls and tables in his not-too-large office are honorary university degrees; a photo taken with Attorney General Edwin Meese; another photo taken years ago on Tinian, showing Agnew and his fellow scientists at a briefing session the night before the Hiroshima...
Sitting behind a gleaming, curved desk in his New York City office, Allen Neuharth picks up the day's issue of USA Today, the terse, rainbow-colored newspaper that he created and nurtures. "We stole most of this from somebody else," says Neuharth, chairman of the Gannett Co., parent firm of USA Today. "Most of the content ideas, the packaging, color and graphics are the result of what television and the newsmagazines have been doing for a long time." Leaning back in his chair, Neuharth, 61, turns to the paper's full-page weather map. "This is a direct, absolute...
...tyrannies and famine. The arena is variously host to epic, comedy and finally tragedy, and it houses enough intrigue to fill a shelf. Here is the gigantic face of Mussolini, carved out of East African rock, a modern sphinx without a secret. Here is Haile Selassie, dwarfed behind a desk only slightly smaller than an aircraft carrier. Here is Sir Sidney Barton, the eccentric British envoy who provided the model for Sir Samson Courteney in Evelyn Waugh's farce Black Mischief. Here are camels and trucks, scimitars and machine guns, lions and airplanes in a clash of politics and, more...