Word: guru
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...they discover their mutual love of tennis, and end up playing in a series of charity tournaments. But between tournaments, Danny somehow manages to lose his gig on a TV show; Gary never really has a job, and handles his unemployment with a kind of eastern “guru-ness” reminiscent of Thomas Haden Church’s well-meaning sidekick character in “Sideways.” Despite its flaws, “Tennis, Anyone?” does have some very clever moments. Maeve Quinlan’s Siobhan Kelly, the celebrity interviewer...
...beef is at the corner of Dunster and Mt. Auburn streets. The past three weeks have seen the opening of two new Harvard Square burger joints, Flat Patties and b. good, within one block of each other. Flat Patties is the latest brainchild of Felipe’s guru Tom Brush, while this is the second b. good in the Boston area. The only remaining question is: which beef will survive? Figures right now suggest no favorite has yet emerged. b. good co-owner Jon Olinto estimates that his eatery is selling about 250 burgers a day, while Brush puts...
...known methods of torture is sleep deprivation. It can make a person desperate. That is why parents of small children, as soon as all the common-sense strategies backfire and a woozy reality sets in, start combing bookshelves for a sleep guru. Someone who will please explain, preferably in three easy-to-follow steps, how to get their baby to sleep...
...essays. Four years later he migrated to the U.S., where he published his 1939 book on the rise of authoritarianism, The End of Economic Man. It was his classic 1946 study of General Motors, The Concept of the Corporation, that launched his career as a business guru. Drucker went on to write more than 30 books advocating the empowerment of employees while questioning unbridled capitalism, big government and Wall Street greed...
...serious drug problem that led to more than a dozen arrests. On his way to sobriety, he became perhaps the only writer in history to be rejected by both Baywatch Nights and Red Shoe Diaries before landing a job on NYPD Blue under celebrated writer guru David Milch. But struggling for years imbued him with an uncommon sense of purpose. After winning an Oscar for Traffic in 2001, Gaghan turned down seven-figure offers to write the fourth Indiana Jones movie and adapt The Da Vinci Code. Instead, inspired by an anecdote about an oil lobbyist in See No Evil...