Word: details
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...empires without economic justification, just for the sake, well, partly of having a big company, and partly for the sake of dealmaking. I will tell you a secret: dealmaking beats working. Dealmaking is exciting and fun, and working is grubby. Running anything is primarily an enormous amount of grubby detail work and very little excitement, so dealmaking is kind of romantic, sexy. That's why you have deals that make no sense. There's also * another rule that says if you can't run this business, buy another one. There are a lot of companies around that need...
...Harvard examination system is designed, according to its promulgators, to test two specific things, knowledge of trends and knowledge of detail. Men approaching the examination problem have three choices: 1. flunking out, 2. doing work, or 3. working out some system of fooling the grader. The first choice of solution is too permanent and the second takes too long...
...history may have already been rewritten. The revised account of Ulam's pivotal role appears in several new books, including a biography of Teller by Stanley Blumberg and Louis Panos to be published in February by Scribner's. And it is repeated in detail in the latest revision of the New Encyclopaedia Britannica, due out next month...
...book proposes to detail Sand's quest for self-fulfillment, but Jong sets up an unrealistic dichotomy between self-love and romantic love, making the former emotional and the latter purely orgasmic. The men she loves don't love her, but they do give her multiple orgasms--they take her to Henry Miller's infamous "Land of Fuck...
Shades of detail had not yet been sketched in, but the picture's message was evident. The boulder was Nicolae Ceausescu, and the people were trying to propel the monolith off a cliff. Staring at the unfinished illustration in New York City, a Rumanian guest of the artist Eugene Mihaesco remarked, "I guess we have to push a little harder." That was a year and a half ago. The piece and others by Mihaesco, who was born in Bucharest, have since appeared in Universul, a U.S.-printed biweekly circulated underground in Ceausescu's kingdom. And Rumanians did push, with...