Word: ethereality
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...three men trying to cope with these mid-ether collisions of dollars and expectations are an unlikely team. Greenspan, the data-loving analyst with government roots sunk back into the financial and moral chaos of the Nixon Administration, and a shaman-like power over global markets. Rubin, the Goldman Sachs wonder boy who ran the firm's complex and dangerous arbitrage operations and then led it to rocket-ship international growth. And Summers, the Harvard-trained academic who is invariably called the Kissinger of economics: a total pragmatist whose ambition sometimes grates but whose intellect never fails to dazzle...
...that the Lewinsky scandal has stirred up. The other half is the growing difficulty of hiding dirt. Why, when I was a boy, a semen stain was just a semen stain. Now it's a signature. When I was a boy, an intern's girl talk evaporated into the ether. Now it crystallizes in cyberspace as e-mail...
...there's something about Russia. It gives grandeur to tragedy and rivets eyes that would otherwise wander. Maybe it's the Russian soul, that famously long-suffering bit of global ether that gave Dostoevsky and Tolstoy their golden touches. Maybe it's the sweeping snowscapes, or the songs, and that there's just no throng like a Russian throng, fur hats and all. Or maybe it's all those nukes. Whatever it is, it pulls Reds back from the brink and into the pantheon of really long, turgid movies worth watching...
...typical college student what he or she thinks of upon hearing the word "radio." For many, the work conjures up images of a dark past when broadcasters couldn't send pictures through the ether, an age when torchsingers from Chicago and political party conventions in Cincinnati mesmerized listeners huddled around dusty RCA units in the parlor...
...Suarez the added powers seem to have been too strong an ether. Soon after taking office, he tried to fire most senior members of the government, including a police chief credited with cutting crime. The state attorney found the move illegal, and the mayor was forced to agree to six months of oversight by a local court...