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...keep workers intellectually fresh, ROLM gives each employee three months of paid time off for every six years of service. Most people use the time to travel. One engineer crossed the Sahara Desert during his sabbatical, another trekked to Mount Everest. Says Executive Vice President Robert Maxfield: "When our people return from sabbaticals, they bring back a fresh attitude. They don't settle into the old ways of doing things...
Overseeing Apple's growth has kept Jobs too busy to spend the millions he earned when the company went public 14 months ago. He took a few days off last year to go backpacking in Yosemite National Park. Except for some Japanese woodprints and a Maxfield Parrish painting, his unpretentious prints and a Maxfield Parrish painting, his unpretentious Tudor-style home in Los Altos Hills is largely bare because he has not decided how to furnish it. As an executive, Jobs has sometimes been petulant and harsh on subordinates. Admits he: "I've got to learn to keep...
...artist-authors prove adept at combing a broad range of styles. The influence of Arthur Rackham is clearly evident; so are touches as wide-ranging as Hieronymus Bosch, the Pre-Raphaelites and Maxfield Parrish. The result is a seductive ring of words and bright pictures that encircles mystery and merriment and, eventually, the reader...
That Steinberg made that passage, few of his colleagues doubt. But he is one of the very few American graphic artists to have done so; not even the big popular illustrators of earlier years, N.C. Wyeth or Maxfield Parrish, Norman Rockwell or Charles Dana Gibson, can quite bear that claim. Esquire magazine's design director, Milton Glaser, sees Steinberg as a cartoonist who "by some extraordinary series of shifts became a major artist ... It is very hard to truthfully understand what happened to him on the way, not only in terms of self-transformation but in terms...
...print books, records, games, posters and T-shirts. A continuous film program featured classics from "The Day the Earth Stood Still" to "Bambi Meets Godzilla." An art show gave amateur and not-so-amateur painters a chance to show their work--most of which looked like a combination of Maxfield Parrish, Peter Max, and Marvel comics...