Word: pulverizes
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...Rajiv Dutta, eBay's chief financial officer, did not exactly clarify matters by posing the rhetorical question, "How do we make 1+1 equal to greater than 2?" Tech blogs are atwitter trying to figure out what's really behind this. Internet telecom pioneer Jeff Pulver hailed it as a new frontier in marrying e-commerce with communications. But longtime Web observer and Business 2.0 writer Om Malik, suggests that the deal is a desperate attempt by eBay to find new subscribers and to stem fraud. EBay is not alone on the internet phone bandwagon. In the past few weeks...
...born to the role: son of a Boston executive, prep-school boy, Harvard grad, a Navy ensign (like Mister Roberts' Pulver). From the start he was a master of comic timing, of the buttoned-down double take. That flummoxed look paired nicely with his ricochet vocal rhythms--he'd race through phrases, then put a twist on the crucial word. Unlike most other Hollywood actors, who relax and seem to bathe in their star quality, Lemmon worked hard. He let you read his reading of the character. His acting was less about being than about doing...
...even painful heights is of course proof of his actorly genius, which certainly seemed to spring from some deep sense of haplessness in the man himself. Lemmon liked to tell the story of the night he won his first Oscar, for Best Supporting Actor as the unforgettable Ensign Pulver in 1955's "Mister Roberts...