Word: mccoys
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last summer, my first on this job, I read Tom Wolfe's "Bonfire of the Vanities." While reading the misadventures of Wolfe's Sherman McCoy, I searched for the real McCoy among the building's tenants. To my consternation, I could not label any one tenant "most likely to suffer a startling fall from grace after a hit and run accident...
...wasn't the first to fail to find the real life analogue of Sherman McCoy. Hollywood, after all, settled on Tom Hanks, America's icon of decency, to play the pathetic McCoy...
...real world in the particular, this summer I think I might have succeeded in the abstract. The image suggested by Wolfe's title exists in the daily routine on Park Avenue: there, people sacrifice efficiency to pretense and ceremony. While the bonfire is not the conflagration that consumes Sherman McCoy, it is kindled by petty vanities...
...certainly haven't burnished strings' reputation. But with the music's more ambitious players looking for ways to broaden jazz's sonic palette after a decade dominated by neotraditionalism, strings are back (the hipster vogue for lounge music probably hasn't hurt). The boomlet began with last year's McCoy Tyner recording of Burt Bacharach tunes--an appropriate enough context--and continues with new albums by Wynton Marsalis and the 29-year-old Puerto Rican-born tenor saxophonist David Sanchez, both on Columbia. Marsalis' record, The Midnight Blues: Standard Time Vol. 5, is his first standards album since 1991 (despite...
...only one to have figured this out. The past month has been peppered with the kind of earthmoving financial deals that would have seemed impossible a decade ago. On the same day last week that the BankAmerica-NationsBank deal was announced, Banc One chairman John B. McCoy (who once mused that in the future the industry would have just five or six major banks) announced plans to merge his $116 billion bank with the much merged $115 billion First Chicago NBD Corp. All this came just a week after insurance and brokerage giant Travelers Group announced plans...