Word: suppers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dominant market share these days, the company has been seeing a little more of Microsoft's shadow than Bark likes. "We have enormous appreciation, admiration and fear [of Microsoft]," he says. "But like I tell people: I love my brothers, but I don't let them eat my supper...
...keep from losing his supper, Barksdale has retained Gary Reback, a Silicon Valley lawyer who has built a reputation for bashing Microsoft. In early August, Reback mailed a legal letter bomb to the Justice Department's Antitrust Division on Netscape's behalf, accusing Microsoft of every anticompetitive behavior short of kidnapping programmers. The charges infuriated Gates, who has already battled Justice on antitrust issues. Worse, Reback's letter played right into the media's general portrayal of Netscape as a lonely underdog facing off against a cheating giant...
...both had a lot of interest in what the other was studying," said his father. "One of the things we used to do was to get together for supper before or after my class, and he'd tell me what he was doing and I'd tell him what I was working...
...aesthete hatched at the New Yorker and renowned as the writer of eloquent, rarefied novels. And as a tormentor of reporters, who in his early years invented an ever changing, operatic past in which to luxuriate. One tall tale had his father refusing to let Helprin eat supper until, standing at attention, he had told a satisfactory original story...
...second act, the playwright seems to realize that the needs some kind of plot to end the play. So when the audience returns from intermission, "Godspell" ceases to be just smiley, insipid lessons and becomes a more foreboding graphic representation of the life of Jesus, replete with the Last Supper, Betrayal of Judas, and Crucifixion. The change in tone appears inappropriate, overly-contrived and unbelievable. The lack of character development and believable dramatic acting from the previously-perky cast prevents the audience from sympathizing with the characters. While the cast members were shedding laughably phony tears, the audience...