Word: instinctive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They were, of course, the actions of a sublime con artist with a natural instinct for media hype. Ali has it all - humor, anger both real and feigned, a delicious imagination. He understands that the greatest con artists have always winkingly allowed the audience in on their joke. The Greatest is not a biography but another incident in a biography still to be written. As long as one appreciates that it is really the latest flurry in that blizzard-like snow job Ali has huffed and puffed to keep blowing for well over a decade, then one relaxes cheerfully into...
...tickets are being distributed now, long before the June 14 event. Last year each family had to wait in line to pick up their tickets, before getting food. This is where the bottleneck developed. Koivumaki said because of the "herd instinct", entire families stood in the ticket line last year, although only one person...
Laughter is a spontaneous, and by definition, involuntary spasm of mind and body, a confluence of intellect and instinct in a moment of revelation. This is why written humor, deprived of an active context, so often fails. This is why the expression "Ha-ha" appears so pathetic on the page. This is why laying down "laugh-tracks" on sit-coms is like forcing an elephant to do the Hokey-Pokey while spanning the rails in Park St. Under (a game young hooligans call "Shredding the Elephant"). The attempt to institutionalize anarchy deprives anarchy of its essence, and like all large...
...brother, but his insistence that the American economic machine get attention right now is dear to his engineer's head and heart. Charles Kirbo, Carter's friend and counselor, who sits in on many of those White House meetings, says Carter's first instinct is to see if there is some way the private sector can help solve problems. "That was what he always did as Governor," insists Kirbo. In Carter's musings with people like Pollster Pat Caddell, his commitment to sound dollars often crops up. "We've got this freak inflation," said Caddell...
...throw them he will, if often from afar. "There will be phone calls from wherever he is," says Backe. The new chief executive, who is 44, seems a perfect choice for tandem harness with Paley. Brash Arthur Taylor had a homing instinct for the limelight; he could not be trusted to refrain from redecorating Paley's castle. But Backe is unassuming, efficient, extremely bright and content to be an inner-sanctum manager. "It isn't a matter of my letting Bill influence me," says he. "I do take his advice and we agree on most things." Backe cannot...