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...mean "I think I am extra special smart. Please prepare for a volcanic eruption of mental manure." Calling the TF by name when you already have her attention (as in "Well, Carol, I have always had a special love for special relativity. I have a tat-too mural of `Einstein Working at a Black-board' on my behind, as, Carol, I'm sure you do as well") is the International Sign that you are counting on making Carol so uncomfortable that she'll never call on you and you can stop doing the reading. Carefully flipping through the reading like...
...industry" report to Intel's directors and top executives. After the presentation, the CEO submits to an intellectual firing squad led by the likes of Rock and Moore. Grove's performances, say those who have seen them, are a mixture of showmanship and brainpower, as if Albert Einstein were guest host of the Tonight Show. "Andy thinks faster than most people, certainly than me," says Rock, who has made billions betting on firms such as Intel and Apple. "I would hate to compete with Intel...
...with New York, and sets the story on the final day of Prohibition. Besides confirming the characters in their schnapps and vodka guzzling, this innovation allows for wittiness of reference: we got to see flappers onstage during the longer instrumental passages, and hear mention of Greta Garbo, Dillinger and Einstein. The evening's comedy embraced everything from metahumor and operatic in-jokes to puns, sight-gags and slapstick, and the freshness of the jokes kept the story lively through a potentially interminable second...
Little did we know how popular our poll would become. It got off to a fast start last June, drawing some predictable nominees: Winston Churchill for Statesmen, Albert Einstein for Scientists. Since we didn't redirect the votes into appropriate categories, the proposals were not always logical; for a while, Madonna led F.D.R. for Warriors & Statesmen. That's the Internet...
Spending time in the presence of Sir Isaiah Berlin was daunting for several reasons. Here was a man who was known and admired by a Who's Who of the 20th century: Einstein, Freud, Picasso, Churchill, Nehru. And then there was his conversation, which tumbled forth with amazing rapidity--he was once clocked at 400 words a minute--all of it gargled through the remaining traces of his childhood Latvian. When British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan proposed Berlin for knighthood in 1957, the PM suggested that the honor might be deserved "for talking...