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Piracy is an amazingly effortless business. Studios never sell prints of their films, and even make their own actors sign strict loan agreements before they are allowed to borrow films for their own collections. Robert Young testified in a recent piracy trial that he got possession of prints of only two of the 125 movies he made during a 40-year career. Nonetheless, the pirates can easily get prints by bribing or stealing from lab technicians, theater projectionists, members of student and religious groups who rent films, truckers who deliver the prints to theaters, and even the people licensed...
McPhee, however, has accomplished quite a trick: he has gotten himself so perfectly attuned to his audience that he can write the way he does without beginning to grate. Part of it is that he is an extraordinarily meticulous writer, able to achieve an effortless, limpid tone without leaving any loose sentence ends, or losing the thread of his story, or using words that do not belong exactly where they are. His articles seem to convey information almost by accident and to flow along without any forethought, McPhee having just sat down and written out his impressions of something...
...Carey, the largesse .was effortless. He will not disclose his net worth, but Wall Street sources put it at between $200 million and $250 million. That easily ranks the white-haired, 58-year-old Carey (two years older than Hugh) among the 100 or so richest men in the U.S. His company's annual sales are estimated at around $1.25 billion, making it the 23rd largest oil company in the U.S. It certainly is one of the world's largest companies owned by one person. While there are some unexercised stock options held by a few key executives...
Peterson says there is no secret to raising money. "When you have a good product, people just want to give," and Peterson's low-key manner seems to support such an effortless view of fundraising. It's the meticulous approach that "makes people want to give to Harvard, instead of the Metropolitan Opera," Peterson says. But underneath the soft touch is an organization which Peterson says is very effective at "letting people know what their obligation is to Harvard...
...other her new perspective depends not on a fresh understanding forged through her own efforts, but on a stroke of fortune that momentarily allows her to escape the prison of her class. Not only is her enthusiastic reception by the wealthy women at the sanitorium and her effortless shift of identity unrealistic, but there is no more substantial self- awareness in her new personality than in the old, notwithstanding the director's apparent intentions. Her love affair is surely no more profound and emotionally fulfilling a relationship than her marriage, as she simply embraces the first man who appears...