Word: giant
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...that will bring in more than $2.1 billion -- the equivalent of selling more than 131,000 cars and trucks. It was the fourth time this year that G.M. has gone into the public financial markets for a total of $5.3 billion, still well below the $7.09 billion the automotive giant lost in the North American market last year...
...this real-life Crusader Rabbit was just getting warmed up. General Motors -- that ossified symbol of America's industrial decline -- volunteered for the Perot treatment when the giant automaker bought EDS in 1984 and GM chairman Roger Smith looked to this take-no-prisoners Texan to shake up the hidebound hierarchy. Within two years, Perot was going public with his bitter and prophetic denunciations of the GM bureaucracy ("I could never understand why it takes six years to build a car when it only took us four years to win World War II"), and the company ultimately paid...
...land around Fort Worth's new Alliance Airport, which sits on property that the Perot family shrewdly donated (thus vastly increasing the value of the adjoining acreage they kept for themselves). Perot tried to persuade the state legislature to put up $500 million in bonds to lure a giant McDonnell Douglas facility to the new airport. Blocked by a committee chairman, Perot's top lieutenant, Tom Luce, tried to induce the committee vice chairman to act in the chairman's absence. Luce failed, but the committee chairman, Steven Wolens, howls, "They came in and tried to hijack our committee without...
...exchanged for that of outright drama: deep, dark backgrounds and narrative light picking out the hierarchy of character; turbulent crowd scenes; an eye for all classes, from cobblers to kings; a vast range of expression in the faces and gestures; moments of shock (the blade grinding into the clumsy giant's eye in The Blinding of Samson ((1636)) has the same appalling impact as the blinding of Lear) alternating with passages of the most lyrical eroticism, reflectiveness, inwardness. Then, too, there are the shifts of language, the rough and the smooth, and the long series of self- portraits, Rembrandt...
...Henk van Os of the Rijksmuseum and the National Gallery's Neil MacGregor: "If Dou, Drost and Hoogstraten are the true creators of paintings that have for years delighted and inspired us ((as Rembrandts)), it is clearly time we took another look at them as well. Rembrandt remains a giant . . . But he is a giant surrounded no longer by pygmies, but by artists of real stature, whom we ought to know better." What seems a loss may turn out to be a gain, though one wouldn't want to have to explain that to the collectors whose swans have turned...