Word: helle
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...whole thing stalled seemingly over whether the company would use American- or European-size business cards. The more tradition-bound Germans dug in their heels, not surprisingly. But the more flexible Yanks wouldn't budge either. "It got all the way up to me, and I said, 'What the hell, they're only business cards,'" Stallkamp recounts--and he chose the slightly wider European style, for novelty's sake...
Chrysler managers thrived on spotting opportunities and going for them, if necessary chucking previous plans as if they were gum wrappers. And here they were, trapped in Stuttgart's planning hell, bristling at constantly being reminded what to do. A top manager coined the phrase "I'm having a bad PMI day." Steve Harris, Chrysler's former communications chief who defected to General Motors in February, says the Germans played literally by the book--theirs. "You'd go into a meeting and have to turn to Volume 7, Section 42, page 597," he recalls. "The Germans pride themselves on analytical...
...more woman than girl. This is her thespian coming-of-age time, the moment when it happens or it doesn't. An ingenue either aims for Jodie Fosteresque acting glory or is condemned to a Peter Pan-ish purgatory, a high-voiced, short-pants-wearing Urkel-ish hell in which she is damned to re-enact the clumsy tics of adolescence forever...
Annie Proulx twirls words like a black-hat badman twirling Colts, fires them off for the sheer hell of it, blam, blam, no thought of missing, empty beer cans jump in the dust, misses one, laughs, reloads, blams some more. Something like that...
...that a wrestling match brilliantly coordinated by lighting designer Ryan McGee and set designer Sarah Knight '00 to resemble a pep rally from Hell, a shlocky interactive wedding (with, admitedly, an infinitely-better-than-average wedding band performance by Harvard's own B-Side), and the show's pinnacle--a hilarious gender-bending, mimed depiction of Elsa and Lohengrin's wedding night (performed with just the right mix of sincerity and tounge-in-cheek self-awareness and down-right bravery by Jordin Ruderman and Joseph Subotnik '00) and you'll begin to understand the aesthetics of King Kong...