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...band's performances were a theatrical satire of the fast-paced, high- priced, modern world. Screens on the stage would flash from footage of the Gulf War to Van Halen music videos and back to CNN satellite feeds. Bono would talk to the audiences through characters that he had adopted for the show--"the fly," "Mirrorball Man," and "Mister MacPhisto," which were caricatures of lust and greed...
...pull out my favorite blue shirt. Alarms whir, strobes flash. My closet isn't happy. I've worn this shirt three times in the past two weeks. Whoops...
...only injury that night: a firefighter struck in the eye when a student photographer carelessly discarded a used flash bulb...
...explains, "the owner owned the place, and nobody even knew whether the restaurant was making money." In his office at Aureole, he slaps on his desk a one-day balance sheet from Metrazur, his new place at Grand Central Terminal. "Here, every manager in every restaurant gets a flash report every day." He points to a column of figures: the percentage of food cost to food sales that day. When the figure drops below 32% (35% is good), the chef--there are 16 across the company--gets a bonus based on the saving. Over a year's time these bonuses...
...Japan these days. The ldp. The bureaucracy. The outdated banking system. So Tanaka's experience in Nagano is an instructive parable for the rest of Japan, and in particular, for rebel Prime Minister Koizumi. Can Tanaka show the way in Nagano? Or will he prove to be a flash in the pan, a trifling, inconsequential political buffoon? Sure, he is clever enough to feed the public what it wants to hear. In Nagano, they'd had their fill of pricey public-works projects, so they applauded Tanaka's decision to stop the building of dams...