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...consumer economy, the folks who help you do things more efficiently than you could do them alone. But that's all changing: the Net is creating a new, self-service economy. Gates, who was late in recognizing the value of the Net, nonetheless has come up with the mot juste for this development: he calls it "frictionless capitalism...
...amid the book's vital but unlyrical nuts-and-bolts background passages. For example, one sentence on cell division begins, "Meiosis is somewhat more complicated because its purpose is to result in a spermatogonium or oogonium with half the original chromosome number..." Yes, "complicated" is indeed the mot juste...
This old Britishism, a long-winded way to say "finally," is the mot du jour for Jeffrey Katzenberg and others in the burgeoning world of DreamWorks SKG, the company he created with director Steven Spielberg and pop-music potentate David Geffen. For their infant company, though, it is the beginning of the day--a gold sunrise of high finance and unprecedentedly high expectations...
...three other artists were denied grants in 1990 because their work was deemed too "obscene" by the National Endowment for the Arts. In The Well of Horniness there is plenty of chest-grabbing and even mock cunnilingus. Lesbians are referred to as "lezzies" or in one bon mot as "Lebanese." Perhaps what conservatives fear most in Hughes' work is her ability to mock them without seeming bitter or angry. However, humor is the best revenge and in the end Hughes has the last laugh...
...more or less, come of age. He had one hell of a time getting there -- and the reader has had a hell of a time too, swept along by the potent names, the glamorous and seedy settings, and Rorem's gift for the sometimes penetrating, some-times facile bon mot. (Debunking originality in art: "Anyone can build a better mousetrap, but it still snares the same old mice...