Word: vision
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What's the significance of Murphy's guarded enthusiasm for the Crimson's cakewalk? Perhaps it's the vision of a coach who recognizes what the box score doesn't necessarily reflect: that Harvard has enormous offensive potential it has yet to exploit...
...best part of 15 years now, Steve Case has nurtured a vision. Back in the days when modems creaked along at 300 bits a second, when it took half an hour to download a small black-and-white photo and when most Americans were obsessing over CB radios, Case imagined a world where ordinary folk, like the ones he grew up with in Hawaii, would find real utility in connected computers...
...where V.P.s brag alternately about late nights and mountain-biking exploits. "I've spent my whole life building brands," he says. "And we're focusing more on brand building than others. My experience tells me that's a good thing." He talks in a soft, deliberate voice, and his vision for AOL is as clear as Case's, though there's always the possibility of an ego conflict between...
...treat various conditions and is sometimes prescribed to quiet symptoms of agitation and aggressiveness in patients being treated for alcoholism. Alcohol (in Paul's case, equal to eight or nine shots of straight whiskey) combined with the antidepressants would greatly intensify the side effects of drowsiness, impairing reflexes and vision. Paul's physician, Dr. Diane Beaulieu-d'Ivernois, says his last visit was only two days before the accident; she refuses to discuss his medical records or say why he received the prescriptions...
...stereotypes but to make light of them and show that hey, they're no big deal; the whole point is that none of this should be such a big deal, but is made to be. There's no edge, no grit: it's the sanitized, homogenized Hollywood comic vision of a Greenleaf, Indiana, learning to accept gays, if not to be perfectly politically correct about them. "In & Out" isn't particularly subtle or inventive, but it's shrewd enough to be a comedy about homosexuality that won't make most heterosexuals uncomfortable...