Word: masterfulness
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...simply, he wants something more along the lines of Eddie Temple's library. Eddie's the cherry on top of the Layer Cake, a master criminal with interests in legitimate real estate. Played with casually silky menace by Michael Gambon, he has developed a taste for opera (The Damnation of Faust naturally comes up in his conversations) and for rare books. We don't know that he reads them, but, by golly, he has them--housed in a burnished, glowingly lighted library. You can practically feel the sweat of desire forming on our antihero's lip when he penetrates this...
...certainly is. But insane as it sounds, that is all according to the master plan. The whole point of doing the first Xbox was to have a shot at making money next time around. "The first generation, it's just like a video game," Gates says. "If you play perfectly, at the end it says, 'You get to play again.' That's all it says!" He's cracking himself up. He has a surprisingly infectious laugh. "You put your hand in the till. There's no quarter down there. There's no, like, even tickets to buy funny dolls...
...well positioned and well marketed and so devilishly useful that it becomes the de facto standard and creates an insanely profitable quasi-monopoly around itself? As music and movies become more and more digital, the entertainment business is transforming into a software business, and somebody has to build the master platform on which all that software runs, and the hardware through which it flows. Turn to page 13 in your "Book of Xenon," please: "As the world's software leader, Microsoft is among the best suited to enable and capitalize this transformation. This is our opportunity to lose...
...psychic cliff," but that's not generally how the game of chess affects people. I have been playing chess since I was in elementary school. It helped me tremendously with concentration, analytical skills, organizing and prioritizing. It made me what I am today: an engineer and International Chess Master. The experiences of the majority of chess players are positive, and we will pass on the values of the activity to the younger generation...
Pian joined the Harvard Music Department to teach Chinese Music in 1961, and then was appointed professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and professor of music in 1974. She was also Master of South House at Radcliffe College from...