Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they have a conscience? " Sylvia Crystal asked of the Harvard Corporation, the University's highest governing board. "This was just plain deception...
...Monday, two days before the fateful announcement, Jobs has the run of Apple headquarters. Most of the executive suites are already empty, their inhabitants gone to Macworld or just plain gone. Apple's management ranks have been thinning at an alarming rate. Only Fred Anderson, the chief financial officer, is roaming the halls as Jobs negotiates with Microsoft by phone and works on a quickie video of the new Apple board he virtually handpicked--naturally to include his buddy, Oracle chief Lawrence Ellison, who considered his own takeover bid of Apple this spring. "We caught Larry Ellison...
...single artist's name in all the 1,000 years of Cambodian art has been recorded.) Which hardly matters, since the subject of this dense, exquisitely carved image is less a man than a conception of kingship: full of presence but withdrawn in meditation, centered, and plain to the point of humility. As pure as any Brancusi, it is one of the most touching icons in all Asian sculpture. As you scan it, the remoteness of the time and the society in which it was made ceases to matter...
...problem with performing Shakespeare--plain, English-accented, straight-out-of-the-Riverside Shakespeare--is that, more likely than not, the audience will find it boring. But this is not necessarily because of content, acting or even directing. It is simply because it has already been done so many times before. Performing "Shakespeare-in-the-yard" has become so cliched that the Class of 1999 made the phrase itself the title of their Freshman Musical. However, add some modern twists, funky costumes and characters with character, and you've got a hit as big as Baz Luhrmann's "Romeo and Juliet...
...McKenna makes plain, that's easier said than done. Trading in the security of prestige, promotions and power lunches for the more ephemeral rewards of greater flexibility, balance and freedom may require a woman not only to rework her finances but also to retool her very identity. McKenna admits that after walking out on corporate life, "I felt like a nonperson." Though she'd left to pursue a career in writing, peers assumed she'd gone home to be a mommy--a common misperception about women who step off the conventional fast track. "The immediate defense is to devalue your...