Word: pragmatist
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...when he made the jump into couture. Is his move a lark? An ego thing? A way to boost the eventual sale price of his business, one of the largest independent fashion companies in the world? No one knows for sure. But the Italian is a pragmatist who has launched high-end-apparel, jeans and home lines by interpreting his distinctive aesthetic at a variety of price levels. "Couture has followed a path that is overly theatrical and too much about a big show," he explained on the eve of his debut. "There is nothing sincere for the woman...
...relationships. So Abrams lets viewers believe they're getting something else. Alias was sold as--and truthfully is--the story of a grad student who becomes a spy. But what really grabbed Abrams was that Sydney Bristow (Garner) has to work with her father Jack (Victor Garber), a chilly pragmatist with whom she has a rocky history. Garner recalls Abrams' pitch: "There would be some action, but it was really a family story," she says. "It sounded completely nuts, but I said, 'Sign...
...Lilley is a self-described pragmatist?no surprise coming from someone who was Washington's top diplomat in both Beijing and Taipei?and he says the U.S. influences China best not through military might but through a combination of economic muscle and human interaction. "Our effort should be to bend China, not break it or change it fundamentally," Lilley says, quoting the report he filed at the end of an explosive two-year ambassadorial term in Beijing that began with the Tiananmen massacre. "Deng Xiaoping's new China was tainted because the blood of Chinese workers and students had been...
...tendency to fall out of his eye is an amusing running gag, and I hope intentional. Lenin (Daemon Pratt) and his wife Nadya (Lauren B. Brodsky ’06) make a well-balanced couple, with Lenin as a charismatic, harsh idealist and Nadya as an even harsher pragmatist. Cecily (Joanna N. Leeds ’04) and Gwendolen (Andrea V. Halpern ’07) are, despite their cheerfulness, among the most serious characters in the play, which they well display in a polite dialogue that turns into veiled viciousness, complete with slightly-too-hard friendly pats...
...sentenced for political and religious crimes last year. Yet a growing number of activists who push for cautious change--like curbing the country's labor-camp gulags and ending arbitrary police detentions--take heart from Hu's reluctance to crack down on their efforts. Many see him as a pragmatist who will continue the party's slow withdrawal from a complex society. "Hu isn't changing China. China is changing Hu," says Li Fan, director of the private Beijing-based World and China Institute, which promotes local elections. The unanswered question: Can Hu change fast enough? --By Matthew Forney