Word: marvinism
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...wasn't," says an officer. Suspicions were further heightened when family members told police that a copy of what might have been a new will had been erased from Jose Menendez's home computer. "The focus became very clear over the past few months," said Chief of Police Marvin Iannone. There was some physical evidence, but "we were waiting for the glue binding it together...
...three Libner lads have not spoken for what they indifferently estimate as three to five years, all being sure they have nothing but genes in common. The eldest, Marvin (Daniel Stern), is an officious straight arrow. The youngest, Bobby (Patrick Dempsey), is a juvenile delinquent manque. The middle brother, Buddy (Arye Gross), naturally keeps trying to mediate fraternal fractiousness. None can imagine why their father Fred (Alan Arkin) insists that they all are needed to perform a single task: pick up a perfectly preserved 1954 Cadillac convertible in Detroit and deliver it (despite speed traps, accidents and fights for control...
Sociology professor and longtime Carril observer Marvin Bressler sees more than strategy. He sees a framework of philosophy behind it. "Pete is a consequential man with all these quirks. He is the only man who can talk like a 19th century moralist and not embarrass me." Carril can fan himself into instant fury over the hypocrisy of a player who invokes the name of God before a game, then insults the integrity of the officials by pretending to be the victim of a foul once on the court. "If I'm ever refereeing a game and that happens," he says...
...Marvin's excesses, of course, are the result of years of shored-up liberalism, of years spent awaiting tenure. Galbraith might not be subtle, but he most certainly is clever, imaginative and funny...
...concept that measured the time -- often a matter of milliseconds -- that public figures spend thinking of matters unrelated to themselves. The new novel, his third, explores the equally valuable IRAT, or Index of Irrational Expectations, a quantification of the collective wrongheadedness of the stock market. Harvard technocrat Montgomery Marvin, known for his seminal study of refrigerator pricing, invents IRAT and becomes exceedingly rich. He thus affronts the self-satisfied Cambridge community, where "no one has ever been known to repeat what he or she has heard at a party, only what he or she has said." This is the mandarin...