Word: surrealness
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Rumsfeld made clear last week that despite the Saudi embarrassment, he values the board's advice. "I have always benefited from a competition of ideas," he said. But in a Pentagon known for marching in lockstep to Rumsfeld's orders, the surreal Saudi briefing left some thinking that Perle's board should focus next on picking its targets--and the weapons used against them--more wisely...
...taken a while for the blow to sink in. a market crash doesn't always come in a day. It can sneak up, slow and surreal, and you can think you survived it only to find it has barely begun. Now each week brings a new shudder and crack--first Enron and Arthur Anderson, then WorldCom, Adelphia, Xerox and the trials of Martha Stewart. Most Americans--72% in the TIME/CNN POLL--fear that they see not a few isolated cases but a pattern of deception by a large number of companies. In one survey, more than half of corporate chief...
...taken a while for the blow to sink in. a market crash doesn't always come in a day. It can sneak up, slow and surreal, and you can think you survived it only to find it has barely begun. Now each week brings a new shudder and crack-first Enron and Arthur Anderson, then WorldCom, Adelphia, Xerox and the trials of Martha Stewart. Most Americans-72% in the TIME/CNN poll-fear that they see not a few isolated cases but a pattern of deception by a large number of companies. In one survey, more than half of corporate chief...
Grubman gives the episode a surreal quality. A star telecom analyst, he was paid $20 million a year for covering the stocks of companies like WorldCom that send billions of dollars in investment-banking business to Salomon. He was so tied in at WorldCom that for a time he even advised Ebbers on takeover strategy. Grubman typically avoids the press. Last week a camera crew from financial channel CNBC tracked him down near his New York City residence and tried to interview him on the fly--evoking images of paparazzi stalking a movie star. "Nobody saw this coming," Grubman said...
...Further violence unfolds with a detached, unsettling inevitability, and by the time Kazuki kills Hidetomo, you're almost relieved. After the murder, he descends into a surreal, Oedipal nightmare of guilt and paranoia, eerily coming to resemble his dead father as he struggles to run the household and the pachinko business. Kazuki is so frazzled he can't even get around to disposing of the corpse; as his mind begins to unravel, he desperately concludes more killing may be necessary to conceal the dead body rotting in a vault filled with gold...