Word: wits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Today, 33 years and more than a billion dollars later, that quick wit and peculiar go-for-the-jugular charm are still predominant in the man who was hired to pilot Netscape through Microsoft-infested waters--and who, on the witness stand, is proving to be Bill Gates' worst enemy. John Doerr, the venture capitalist and Johnny Appleseed of Silicon Valley who helped recruit Barksdale, refers to him as the "gold standard of CEOs...
...Stuart is, as hokey as it may sound,necessarily honest to the reader and to herself.From this self-awareness stems her charming wit,uproariously deadpan delivery of madcap WASPmaneuverings and an impeccable sense of comictiming, matched with a poet's (or at leastrelated-to-a-poet's) awareness and a mother'stenderness. She is quick to admit to the bigoted,petty and, yes, manic shortcomings of hermuch-institutionalized family, but just as quickto admit her own shortcomings and accept them all.As this first cousin knows, being neurotic isgood, but knowing you're neurotic is even better
...Stewart may not be anybody's idea of the first or last word in comedy today, but Naked Pictures of Famous People certainly gives out hope for the future of comedians-turned-writers. With brilliant fervor, nonstop wit and the decorum of the average skateboard fanatic, Stewart rips into the good, the bad and the better-left-unsaid. Not all of the stories come out as winners, but those that do are certainly worth discovering, and those that aren't should at least be given a chance. In addition to the Martha Stewart shenanigans, another particularly revealing section...
...obvious mark of executive producer Scott ("the Snot") St. John (that's what he calls himself in the credits), who, with Brian Graden, co-created Studs, the dating-game show that was just as rude and compelling as St. John's new creation. The old show benefited from the wit of host Mark DeCarlo, who should be forced back into the host's chair. But then again, Magic Johnson couldn't mess up this...
...chair of the Harvard Law School Democrats Andrew B. Kratenstein, a third-year law student, introduced Frank as one of the great "intellectual and political leaders" of Congress, whose "sharp wit is matched only by his sharp tongue...