Word: hotshot
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...calls than computers could handle. And as "America On Hold" angered customers, it perplexed Wall Street. Accountants demanded that AOL refigure its books, erasing every dollar of profit the company ever made. It faced potential lawsuits from the attorneys general of 36 states over billing practices. William Razzouk, a hotshot executive from FedEx, split after just five flabbergasted months as president of the service. The company endured, inevitably, a collapse of its too-rich stock price. Twice...
...GLIDING THROUGH SLAM-glam media roles--senatorial wannabe in The Candidate, screenwriter in The Way We Were, hotshot reporter in All the President's Men--Robert Redford gave some people the idea that he had missed his true calling: anchorman! He had it all: the authority and irony, the requisite twinkle. That craggy charisma would have sat smartly behind a Formica desk. But then news imitated art: the networks created their own lower-wattage Redfords in Brokaw, Jennings, Stone Phillips. And now, when Redford finally gets into a TV-news movie, he's nearly 60, too old to begin...
...doesn't please everyone. Critics complain he never lets plausible characters stand in the way of information; not much of a novelist but a hell of an educator. On the other hand, scientists have been known to say he saws the limb off behind him; no hotshot in the lab but a hell of a tap dancer with a word processor. Crichton is used to the charges. "Feeling conflicted, different, has been a fact of my life," Crichton told the Los Angeles Times. "Someone once compared me to a bat. 'Put a bat among birds,' he said, 'and they call...
Disagreeing with Wilson on just about everything having to do with heredity versus environment is Stephen Jay Gould, Agassiz professor of zoology. Gould, another Harvard science hotshot, often teaches a Core science course...
...that has made him a ubiquitous musical presence. Although he's only 22, he has played on some 70 recordings and has toured with the top soloists, most recently saxophone wunderkind Joshua Redman. Now McBride's solo debut, Gettin' to It, should establish him as more than just a hotshot accompanist...