Word: zens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...litmus test for service is the candidate's sincere desire to be useful to others. If a candidate lacks that, he'll end up using people and his position for personal aggrandizement. Genuine leaders should possess moral integrity and professional competence--food for thought for both Russians and Americans. ZEN UDANI Pamplona, Spain Via E-mail...
...Krall sought her muse south of the border. While still in her teens she left home to study jazz piano at Boston's Berkelee school, then moved on to Los Angeles, where she befriended the great bassist Ray Brown, a veteran of Peterson's band. Brown taught her the Zen of swing--"You just feel it, " she says. "They can't teach you that in school." Through most of the 1980s she played in small hotel lounges: "When I'd show up, they'd ask, 'Where's the piano player?' I'd say, 'I am the piano player...
Dominating the corner of Wilshire and Santa Monica boulevards in Beverly Hills, CAA's forbidding I.M. Pei-designed headquarters stands as a Zen fortress guarding entry to the city's sparkling business district. For years the building has been show-biz ground zero, a hot zone where Ovitz--routinely referred to as "the most powerful man in Hollywood"--built up the town's most imposing list of talent. His masterful, softly menacing style, along with his courtship of nontraditional clients like Coca-Cola and Credit Lyonnais, transformed the old stereotype of the talent agent as a hustling flesh peddler into...
...drawing. And yet its range of expressive power comes through marvelously in this show. At one extreme we see the almost chiseled formality of the 12th century Emperor Hui Tsung's script, with its flicking exactness of stroke; at the other, the blithely spontaneous notation of the 8th century Zen Buddhist monk Huai-su, who liked to work when drunk on rice wine. And somewhere in between is the long-arm forehand and backhand of the 16th century scholar-artist Chu Yun-ming, whose fierce cursive brush writing came to be revered as an example of moral probity in itself...
Jackson's New Age philosophy, a mixture of American Indian and Zen Buddhism, has kept the superstars and scrubs, the Croatian and the Australian, the young and the old, the sane and Rodman playing in harmony. But even the coach is hard put to explain just how this team will win more games than any N.B.A. team before it. "A number of times this year," he says, "I'd tell my coaches, 'Pinch me, I don't know if this is a dream or not.' It was like we were doing this with mirrors and smoke. But the reality...