Word: plum
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...Bruce Greenwood, a little-known Canadian actor, has made something remarkable out of this poisoned plum. His JFK, in the Cuban Missile Crisis docudrama "Thirteen Days," quickly moves beyond physical and vocal impersonation to find a harried man in extremis - a young man surrounded by "knowledgeable" cold warriors who have little faith in him. His only rudder is a root belief that America ought not to stumble into an annihilating war with the Soviet Union. From this belief, and Greenwood's craft, a hero emerges...
...still life. (Actually, he's not unlike the cat in his own seafood paintings, fastidiously stalking, with bright-eyed attention, something that cannot move but can go stale.) Everything comes to matter under his level scrutiny. A pyramid of red strawberries becomes a blazing Etna. The surface of a plum turns into a small adventure in discrimination as he gives you the white powder on the purply-black skin and the sharper white highlights reflecting from its gloss, and challenges you to follow the means by which he conveyed both...
...internships. From Shanghai to Paris to New Delhi, they send back tales of wondrous sights and tremendous opportunities. The future politicians and policy analysts go down to Washington, D.C., to learn their way around Capitol Hill and the White House. Those interested in mergers and acquisitions find themselves plum positions with prominent Wall Street firms. The techies migrate towards Silicon Valley, visions of being the next Bill Gates, Class of 1977, dancing in their heads...
...fights with boys from another side of the park, over by Mount Pleasant Street. We combatants were all white boys, scruffy little Dead End kids. One day I outflanked a boy in the woods and sidearmed a perfect strike at his head with a rock the size of a plum. It struck him on the temple. He clutched his head and I saw blood seep between his fingers. I ran home in horror, and hid. I was sure I had killed him. I had not. I had fractured his skull...
...speak the truth having personally experienced it through the maddening ordeal that is recruiting. For the uninitiated out there, recruiting is the brutal, puerile, demeaning process by which seniors jockey for plum positions within investment banks, consulting firms and various other fast-track jobs in the business world. It is also the process by which the realities of the real world come crashing down on our sheltered little heads...