Word: monetizations
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...puts on a great game. For a 28-year-old, A-Rod comes off as a guy who's lying to impress a date's dad. He collects art (Chagall, Picasso, Monet and Renoir are favorites because "I don't like contemporary art"), can't dance, lists Frank Sinatra as his favorite musician and takes a break every night with friends and family for Breyers Cookies & Cream in the living room. Clay Aiken would get bored of this guy. Teammate Jason Giambi describes Rodriguez in a way that makes him seem programmed. "I've worked out with Tiger Woods...
Maybe it says something that, in considering my thoughts about her, I find that the only way to bring this to a close is to revisit Monet and observe, perhaps for the first time, that the colors have changed—have had to change—with time...
...their matter-of-fact imagery, their art of the moment, was exactly unsuited to his aspirations toward an art of classical weight. The gravity of the Egyptian statuary and Hindu stone carvings he loved, their sense of eternity, was not to be found in the picnic scenes that beguiled Monet and Renoir. Even in France, Gauguin had ventured in search of locales in which day-to-day life might still show glimpses of ancient mystery. For a while, the peasant villages of Brittany served as his nearby version of the faraway...
...more raw talent. She excelled in recognizing good designs and figuring out which ones could be sold to which stores and at what price. This is not unlike her role at Claiborne, which runs 32 clothing and accessory brands--including Dana Buchman, Ellen Tracy, Kenneth Cole New York, Mexx, Monet and recent acquisition Juicy Couture--and had sales of $3.2 billion in the first three quarters of 2003. Ahrendts manages a good portion of the women's labels and all of the men's. She may lack the profile of a superstar designer or a CEO, but her decisions directly...
Theme: Lots of purple and lots of Monet...