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The cover story deflates the Alan Greenspan myth.
But Rosenbaum deflates it completely by cataloging it under the rubric "No More Mr. Nice Guy."
(David Plotz's "" of a generic man of the year deflates the genre.)
A comment in the Independent on Sunday deflates entrepreneur and balloonist Richard Branson.
In the New Republic , Jed Perl deflates the hype surrounding Robert Rauschenberg's Guggenheim retrospective.