Word: good
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kareem's association with Khaalis was brief, but a vague connection to mystery and darkness lingered. Unlike Wilt Chamberlain, who slouched in layup drills and favored finger rolls over slam dunks, Kareem lacked the good taste to be chagrined by his size, to shrink himself down to tradition, to hide the shame of his incongruous talents. He was as tall as Chamberlain and yet as agile as Bill Russell. "His sky hook," says Russell, who seldom rhapsodizes, "is the most beautiful thing in sports...
Wurman's prescriptions are sound enough: be a good listener, be a contrarian, avoid gratuitous precision, avoid cliches. He also makes some more or less fresh points: that all information is inherently selective and subjective, and that the mind is not an ultra-complicated computer but a place full of unprogrammable and meaningful lapses, quirks and non sequiturs. Yet as he approvingly predicts the proliferation of directories of directories and a new Secretary of Understanding in the Cabinet, Wurman seems to be suffering from Information Giddiness...
More upscale in taste and budget? Do you search for designer knockoffs and value the Liz Claiborne-Cable Car look? Do a $10 lunch and a $14 dinner (including a glass of wine) sound good as long as you get trendy food in a slick grill-bistro setting? Then hope that within the next two or three years yours is one of the ten or twelve cities that will get the Daily Grill, created by the management that owns the pricey Grill in Beverly Hills...
...Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation will pump into the thrift to make it lucrative for the new owners is estimated at $1.7 billion to $2.5 billion. The arrangement clearly adds up to a sure-thing profit for Bass. American Savings will be split into two entities: a "good" S & L to hold $15.4 billion in healthy assets and a "bad" one that will liquidate $14.4 billion in sour loans and other assets. For a total investment of only $500 million, the Bass Group gets 70% ownership of the good thrift. FSLIC controls the rest...
Behind the smiles and sweeping promises of last week's speech lurks a calculated, if short-term, political strategy. The President and his team believe they can maintain the illusion of a "new breeze" with minor recalibrations of priorities and finances as long as Bush continues to talk a good game with both the voters and Congress...