Word: lewises
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Okay, hold on Celtics fans. Yes, Larry is back, and after bidding arrivaderci to point guard Brian Shaw, the green Machine picked up John Bagley and Ed Pinckney as fine-tuned working parts to go with Kevin McHale, Robert Parish, Reggie Lewis and Dennis Johnson. But don't start feeling...
In 1984 a recent Princeton University graduate chatted up a well-connected dinner partner and found himself a job at Salomon Brothers, a prominent New York City investment house. Upon entry, Michael Lewis was presented with a choice of two career tracks. A commercial banker took deposits and made loans...
In The Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe caricatured the voracious men who work 16-hour days, earn outrageous salaries that never keep pace with their desires, and consider themselves "Masters of the Universe." But Wolfe was a tourist; Lewis issues his catcalls from deep inside the jungle. At the...
Worst of all for Salomon Brothers, Michael Lewis, who was earning $225,000 a year at the age of 27, overdosed on greed and quit the firm to empty his journals into this brief, knowing and hilarious volume. Alas, its disclosures are not likely to be heeded. The Street provokes...
At the end the picture goes soft -- say, from the rigorous humanism of The Elephant Man to the emotional sops of Life Goes On. But that is no crucial flaw in what is at heart a love story written in pain. As Christy's parents, Brenda Fricker and Ray McAnally...