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...rivalry began, at least in the mind of Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys' resident whiz kid, a musician of abundant compositional gifts and emotional fragility. The Beatles went to work on the album that would become the single greatest mainstream breakthrough in all of rock. Wilson, simultaneously, was in the studio working on a record called Smile that would turn into rock's most notorious grail. Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band made history. Smile never made it out of the studio...
...Faustian bargain of big money and sapping compromise, of anxious wives and Stepford lives. How handsome the paneling on a lawyer's desk -- as handsome as the paneling on a lawyer's casket. At Bendini, Lambert & Locke, death is the penalty for abusing the rule of confidentiality. Harvard Law whiz Mitch McDeere (Tom Cruise) will break that rule and many others honored by his firm, the Mob, the FBI and his resilient wife Abby (Jeanne Tripplehorn...
When a child of the 1950s was told that video phones and rocket packs were just around the corner, he believed all the giddy hype, desperately wanted every whiz-bang contraption, couldn't wait for the new technological dawn . . . and then waited, and waited, year after disappointing year, making do with aerosol cheese and pocket calculators and feeling finally that those Jetsons promises might never be fulfilled...
...reformed out of business a couple of decades ago). In cutting deals, the modern lions rely as much on suasion as brute political force, and when they have to fight dirty, they prefer the stiletto to brass knuckles. They are policy mavens who can match any calculator-toting Administration whiz kid, statistic for statistic and program for program. They command personal respect even in an institution crowded with overweening White House wannabes. And they have a far deeper and more sophisticated understanding of Washington and its folkways than most of Clinton's West Wing staff put together...
Gould, a world- renowned evolutionary biologist who writes monthly essays about science for the layperson in Natural History, questioned what he sees as a national aversion to scientific writing. "Why in AMerica has the notion of popular science become conflated with cheapening, adulteration, and whiz bang?" he asked...