Word: existence
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...brought IBM back from what his top lieutenant immodestly calls a "near death experience" instigated by the company's slavish commitment to mainframe computing, a business that started to dissolve sometime during the Carter Administration. Since arriving in April 1993, Gerstner has refocused IBM on businesses that actually exist, unplugged more than 40% of the work force, tripled its once crippled stock price and, in the process, answered what looked to be the most difficult business riddle of the decade: How do you save a company from its own worst instincts? Think. Gerstner seems to be doing...
...cast deliver lines with an apt sense of timing, particularly Rabbit and Heawood, both of whose differently-toned platitudes can be very funny. Perhaps the only sore spot lies in the admittedly difficult role of Lulu (Abigail Gray), a friendly neighbor whom Goldberg seduces. While she seems to exist only as one more way in which Goldberg can menace Stanley--sexually--Gray comes across as somewhat more awkward than necessary...
Moralizing about the homosexual lifestyle is a second issue, and one to which I would also like to respond. Living in a morally pluralistic society, we need to allow various belief systems the space to operate and exist. McFadden compares the "right" to practice sodomy with the "right" to play checkers, an absurd comparison on many levels. Expressions of sexuality are essential aspects of our human lives, and there are as many different kinds of expression as there are humans...
...betrayal. But The Tailor of Panama (Knopf; 333 pages; $25) shows that he knows a few more tricks than he has so far revealed. How about, for example, a story of some eager beavers in British intelligence hot on the trail of a conspiracy that does not actually exist...
...maybe a strong connection does not exist. But we might as well clear up a few misperceptions while we're on the subject...