Word: relentless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...launch firms are able to survive the inevitable changes that come with rapid growth. Says Tushman: "The very characteristics that lead entrepreneurs to start companies--independence, innovation and a commitment to ideas--are the same ones that can cause their demise as managers. A mature firm cannot tolerate relentless turmoil or a tendency to dash off in all directions...
...does not work, of course. But Calvino's narrative of this doomed quest succeeds admirably, in part because he, like Samuel Beckett, recognizes the comic possibilities inherent in the tailspin of logic toward the absurd. Mr. Palomar's relentless speculations render him buffoonish. Passing a woman sunbathing topless on a beach, he averts his eyes lest she cover herself and embarrass them both. On reflection, though, he decides that his behavior was incorrect, since it reinforced outmoded taboos against nudity. So he walks by again, this time taking in the bare breasts as an incidental feature in the general landscape...
...increasingly critical. Television images, bounced off satellites to the remotest corners of the world, have made the cliche of the global village a reality. The polarization of nations along East-West lines has intensified the ratings war. Totalitarian states, by virtue of their complete control over the media, are relentless producers of propaganda. Democracies are sometimes gullible consumers. Complex issues can be twisted and made dangerously simple by clever opinion shapers, and if the masses can be moved, their elected leaders must follow. Nuclear weapons have raised the stakes. As real war becomes increasingly costly and nuclear war barely thinkable...
...plot is sheer silliness as well. It centers around Pee Wee's relentless search for his stolen bicycle. It must be understood that this is not just any bicycle, but the ultimate kid's bicycle (at least in Pee Wee's mind), complete with lion's head on the handlebars, spiral wheels, streamers trailing from the handgrips, and the world's loudest horn...
...luminaries as Miles Davis, Art Blakely and Weather Report, these trained-reflex young masters are fresh and brash enough to try playing with a pop star. But while the move to wed pop-rock/reggae with jazz may be conceptually daring, none of Sting's tunes foster the lyricism, relentless drive, or direct passion so potent in the best of both worlds...