Word: industrialistic
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Beyond that, you have to thank all concerned for giving that great minimalist, Bill Murray, his first good role since 1993's Groundhog Day. It's oxymoronically difficult to get laughs out of clinical depression, but as Blume, an industrialist driven to despair by his wealth, his wife and his ghastly children, Murray does it brilliantly. He's also the perfect foil for endlessly up-and-doing Max, who is, perhaps, everything Blume once was, all that he can no longer be. Their eccentricities speak to one another--until they both fall in love with pretty, wistful Miss Cross (Olivia...
...fetishes of Howard Hughes (1905-76) have entered folklore, to the point that Hughes is remembered less for having been an industrialist-aviator-Hollywood-producer than for having been a saver of urine (his own), a recluse terrified of dust, a man who, with the right audience (Mormon bodyguards), couldn't see Ice Station Zebra often enough. Yet for every celebrity eccentric, a dozen more labored in obscurity. Who remembers Brian Hughes? This 1920s box-manufacturing tycoon liked nothing better than to patrol the sidewalk outside Tiffany in New York City, an envelope tucked beneath his arm. When the moment...
...destitution are indeed huge problems. Why take a toothpick to clear them, when what is really required are sledgehammers and bulldozers? The best intentioned "social worker" in a non-governmental organization would be lucky to count even one person he has truly lifted out of poverty. A single industrialist like Henry Ford, by starting the first assembly line and doubling workers' wages to $5 a day, started a trend that empowered millions and created a whole new middle-class in America--even while creating a new customer base to buy his Model T's and amassing a huge personal fortune...
...need a computer on every desk by a certain grade," said John O'Connor, an industrialist...
...products that Microsoft makes have a very short life span." He also tried his best to sound worried about the threat from Sun Microsystems, but Sun CEO Scott McNealy got far more sympathy for taking on the Redmond behemoth: "Would you go up against the most dangerous and powerful industrialist of our age?" he asked. The markets certainly wouldn't -- Microsoft stock was up three-eighths at the hearing's close...