Word: subjects
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...message: let's make the move official, let's discuss possible collaboration between our two companies," he said. "I own a private company, and I can't be taken over. Here's what I'm telling them: let's merge the two companies so Gucci will no longer be subject to a takeover." He later denied part of this, but he has talked before of turning Prada into a multinational, multibrand house like LVMH, the French conglomerate that specializes in the whims of the very wealthy, from Louis Vuitton luggage to Christian Dior gowns...
...broaden the context: never rise to a provocation, especially on that subject. Do not! Turn aside temptation. Go deeply Zen. Repeat a mantra. Think of Rhett Butler at Ashley Wilkes' place early in Gone With the Wind, when he confronts the naive Southern glory-talk. Clark Gable bows slightly and ironically and works his mouth in that sly, urbane way, saying, with a tricky formality of self-effacement, "I apologize for all my shortcomings...
That's you next time the subject of Lewinsky or Starr comes up--Gable refusing the duel...
Sorry, I couldn't resist, because like most people, I'm reduced to snickering adolescence when the subject of sex comes up. But Greenberg, a legendary freethinker, known for his unorthodox remarks, beguiling magic shows and his obsession with keeping office overhead down ("It's what killed the Egyptians!"), saw that Viagra could easily become one more way of separating the haves from the have-nots. His book Memos from the Chairman collects 17 years' worth of messages to his staff on ephemera such as returning every phone call, reusing envelopes and rationing cabs...
...Nowhere does she explain what methods, if any, Nikki uses to overcome imposed hardships. Thomas-Graham has highlighted a valid problem worthy of further discussion, but, without initiating that discussion, the book's treatment of this problem becomes so diluted as to lose significance. In short, race becomes a subject about which characters can bitch and moan, but not one that the reader can take seriously, regardless of the author's attempts...