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...property boutique chain is one of a host of competitors, large and small, who are out to spoil Schrager's good time. Kimpton caters to less image-conscious business travelers who still prize a little personality, including free tarot-card readings, back rubs or goldfish. The San Francisco-based dynamo is establishing a growing national presence, converting bank buildings and department stores in places like Denver and Portland into small, Euro-style hotels...
...happy, sad, frustrated, all on one field. It was O.K. to be that." Says Tony DiCicco, the U.S. women's head coach: "You see Mia's true personality come out on the soccer field. Coupled with her athletic ability and talent, when she puts it together, she's a dynamo...
...William Levitt, creator of suburbia --Lucky Luciano, criminal mastermind --Louis B. Mayer, Hollywood mogul --Charles Merrill, advocate of the small investor --Akio Morita, co-founder of Sony --Walter Reuther, labor leader --Pete Rozelle, football-league commissioner --David Sarnoff, father of broadcasting --Juan Trippe, aviation entrepreneur --Sam Walton, Wal-Mart dynamo --Thomas Watson Jr., IBM president...
...talks fast, moves fast--a dynamo kind ofperson...She thought it was going too slowly andso she inserted herself," says one Radcliffeofficial...
...central figure in all this is Henry. He is a dynamo, constantly moving in and out of his "reality," constantly challenging his audience’s ideas of "onstage" and "offstage." His view of the world seems at first childlike--as the doctor notes--but it steadily gains momentum and substance, building up to an explosion in which Henry reveals the truth. He is not mad and has not been for several years; rather, he feigns insanity in order to "tear off the comic masks" from the faces of others and to "reveal all their trappings as mere disguises...