Word: greed
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...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...
...serve humanity by opening their hearts and, literally, their minds to scientific inquiry even after death. These nuns have much to teach us, not only about this disease but also about generosity, optimism, faith and joy. Their quiet example stands in marked contrast to the selfishness, hate, violence, greed and materialism of today's world. KEVIN KAWAMOTO Seattle...
...Philip Marlowe (among other truth seekers) and moviemakers (among other chronic liars) for Mulholland Dr.; Santa Rosa (scene of Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt) for the toxic scent of small-town failure in The Man Who Wasn't There. Both films serve up a lovely, lurid brew of greed, murder and twisted identities. But the Coen movie, with Billy Bob Thornton and Frances McDormand locked in a jealous adagio, is twistily faithful to the noir formula. The Lynch, which sails through its first 90 minutes as a ripping yarn about a mystery woman (brunet Laura Harring) and the would...
...salary and a good chunk of his endorsements, which could eventually reach $100 million over four years. No deal was reached. Now, Yao will languish another year in the Chinese basketball league, where middling competition could blunt his budding talents. Says a source close to the failed talks: "Greed killed Yao's hopes...
...Michael Eisner and Ralph Lauren, and the consumer side of business, like "Gridlock" and "Bad Service," and he edited one on "The Simple Life." As Business editor toward the end of the '80s, he had many encounters with the darker side, including a cover story called "A Game of Greed," in which RJR-Nabisco chief Ross Johnson's callous quotes about his proposed leveraged buyout of the company helped seal his deal's failure...