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Just as his emphasis in the performance of outside managers will be a long-term one, Cabot does not expect his staff to shine immediately and fizzle out in their investment dealings. But at the same time, he acknowledges that the need to make changes in both internal staff and outside managers sometimes arises...
...Oscar Wilde party where each guest insults the Prince of Wales and then claims someone else made the remark. "Your majesty is like a stream of bat piss," James MacNeill Whistler comments, and Wilde is forced to explain: "I simply meant, your majesty, that when all is dark, you shine out like a shaft of gold." And the Monty Python stand-by of snappy answers to stupid questions is still occasionally successful. A customer in a cheese store asks without success for every variety of cheese you or your cow ever heard of, until he bursts out: "Do you really...
Great players shine in the playoffs; good players are eclipsed. Getting psyched up isn't enough. In the short, best-of-seven series, the players face each other night after night. They know what to expect from each other. Familiarity breeds defense so that only the great players who can alter their game each night will dominate...
...from the confines of this genre and stamp her own individual form on her writing. She should carve the story lines out of the characters' lives instead of inscribing them to fit well-worn and obtrusive speculations on the meaning of life. Then the glorious ones' real spirit would shine through the scrim of morals she has hung...
Serpico is an energetic melodrama, with just enough realistic bite to shine against its current rivals. Its entertainment values hide a sour joke: one of the few heroic stories of our time has been filmed by men who lack their hero's passionate commitment to advance righteous endeavors to the necessary ends...