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...flippant, let's-see-how-far-over-the-top-we-can-go nature of his work. Eight years after becoming an indelible symbol for the resourceful tactics of guerilla filmmaking with the taut, no-budget wonder El Mariachi, Rodriguez has become an eye-candy dynamo; a gleeful purveyor of pulp so jammed with spicy flavor that it seems ready to rupture on screen at any moment. With the propulsive mayhem of his neo-Spaghetti Western Desperado, Rodriguez established himself as a caffeine-saturated John Woo incarnate, filling the screen with delectable orgies of balletic gunplay and the inspired bedlam...
...Rainfall as a spot market? Seemingly crazy thinking like this has paid off in the past for Skilling who has turned Enron from a gas pipeline business into a savvy Internet trader of commodities, everything from gas and energy to pulp and metals (two of their newer markets). Since Skilling came on board in 1990, revenues have shot up from $2.5 billion to $100 billion and he predicts they will reach $160 billion to $170 billion this year. (Uh, isn't this supposed to be a bad year...
Gallagher's adult life, chronicled in the later chapters, is bland by comparison, despite her two bad marriages, several bad abortions and multiple bad bosses. After a hilarious turn at a celebrity pulp magazine, alongside the young Mario Puzo and Bruce Jay Friedman, she goes on to write two respected books. This third one ends all too soon, without telling us, among other things, about her third marriage, now 20 years running, to Ben Sonnenberg, whose mind soars as founding editor of the highly regarded literary review Grand Street despite his being confined to a wheelchair. But their story gives...
...Godfather Cho has done as much as anyone to burnish the image of the gentleman gangster. He has had 21 books published, mostly thinly disguised autobiographical screeds with rosy depictions of gang life. Of course, the books are pure pulp?a sample chapter heading from one 382-page tome: "Oh, Finger Cutting! Such a Bittersweet Glory"?but readers lap them up. His Son of the Fire sold 200,000 copies. Cho chopped off his own pinkie in public in 1974 after an ethnic Korean gunman from Japan shot the wife of dictator Park Chung Hee. Called danji (finger chopping...
...trio A Tribe Called Quest, Ron Carter is the rare bassist who propels music as much with his ideas as his skills. On this, his first album-length experiment with Latin jazz, Carter realizes that others have come before him, so rather than beat the congas to a pulp, his expert quartet, featuring ace percussionist Steve Kroon, flirts with them. Latin classics like Besame Mucho and Corcovado are splendidly reworked into disciplined, mid-tempo jazz tunes, while samba-flavored Carter originals Loose Change and Mi Tempo prove that playing in the cultural middle ground has its own intellectual thrill...