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...back to the well so explicitly that lames the songs. It's the rapping. Jay-Z is the best M.C. on the planet, but like every other rapper, he has no subject other than his own glorification. Here he steps into the middle of fast-paced love songs to wink at real life: "Rumors you on the verge of a new merge/ Cause that rock on ya finger is like a tumor." It's an unwelcome distraction...
...pressing question: Can a college coach who has been able to impose tight control over pliant 18-year-olds meld the egos of millionaire NBA megastars? After all, several top college coaches have fired air balls in the pros. Krzyzewski's favorite wink-wink reply: "I'm a millionaire too." The early results look good; the team has bought into Krzyzewski's selfless, defense-first philosophy, evidenced in blowouts of China and Puerto Rico and a gritty 90-86 win over Brazil in warm-up games. The ex-Army point guard from Chicago has mixed in motivational ploys--a speech...
...over pliant 18-year-olds, meld the egos of millionaired NBA megastars? After all, several top college coaches have fired airballs in the pros, guys like Lon Kruger of Illinois, fired by the Atlanta Hawks, and Miami's Leonard Hamilton, a washout with the Washington Wizards. Krzyzewski's favorite wink-wink reply: "I'm a millionaire...
...this summer's Wedding Crashers--an over-the-top comedy poised to do big business. As directed by Jared Hess (Napoleon Dynamite), though, the $35 million film is more like Don Quixote set in the absurd subculture of Mexican wrestling than a traditional multiplex comedy. "Jack doesn't wink at the camera," says Hess. "He lives in the weird universe of the movie, so the funny stuff comes from him being the character, not the other way around...
...committed health-food person to eat it," says General Mills CEO Steve Sanger. Yoplait had to convince Americans that they would love its signature creamy texture, but it also had to keep its marketing from diving too deeply into the froufrou. Mills positioned Yoplait's brand, with a wink and a nod, around French culture and used marketing techniques equally foreign to the early '80s such as hot-air balloons and vans parked at marathons for tastings. "'Real Americans,' guys like Jack Klugman and Tommy Lasorda, would eat this stuff with a skeptical look and then burst into French extolling...