Word: partnering
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Nearly 50,000 people jammed the Pebble Beach Golf Links yesterday for the final round of the AT&T National Pro-Am, many of whom--drawn by the presence of Tiger Woods and amateur partner Kevin Costner--were seeing a golf tournament for the first time. Among the humorous vignettes this produced: "What does it mean by negative 13?" one woman asked a score-board operator. A man approached a writer early in the day and asked: "What's the agenda here?" When told the leaders would tee off in two hours he asked, "And where would that happen...
...malefactors before he can blow their heads off. This offers plenty of chances for Murphy-style comedy, none of which writer Randy Feldman or director Thomas Carter bothered to exploit. Except for a decent scene in which Roper mimics a white bandit as a test for his galoot partner (Michael Rapaport), there's no room for Eddie to be Eddie. It's as if Carter thought the project was a smooth vehicle that Murphy could simply ride in, when it's really a hunk-a-junk the star needed to transform...
FRED ASTAIRE Dances with vacuum cleaners? TV ads digitize an ungainly partner for the elegant dancer...
...with the malefactors before he can blow their heads off. This offers plenty of chances for Murphy-style comedy, none of which writer Randy Feldman or director Thomas Carter bothered to exploit. Except for a decent scene where Roper mimics a white bandit as a test for his galoot partner (Michael Rapaport), there's no room for Eddie to be Eddie. It's as if Carter thought the project was a smooth vehicle that Murphy could simply ride in, when it's really a hunk-a-junk the star needed to transform. Roper is issued a regulation villain (Michael Wincott...
When Microsoft began to grow in 1980, Gates needed a smart nontechie to help run things, and he lured Ballmer, who had worked for Procter & Gamble, to Seattle as an equity partner. Though he can be coldly impersonal in making business decisions, Gates has an emotional loyalty to a few old friends. "I always knew I would have close business associates like Ballmer and several of the other top people at Microsoft, and that we would stick together and grow together no matter what happened," he says. "I didn't know that because of some analysis. I just decided early...