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What made Bradley's response on this point especially devastating was his accompanying hand gesture, undoubtedly unconscious but perilously close to the universal symbol for "pull it a little harder."
While by no means as threatening as Japan's act of war, the 9/11 attack was in some ways more devastating.
Bill Gates may not be waking up in the middle of the night worried about whether Netscape has stormed the Ardennes on the way to Sedan, but I'm sure somebody at Microsoft is worried (probably Steve Ballmer, a college buddy of mine who would wake up in the middle of the night if he bothered to sleep), and is working on a devastating counterattack this very moment.
The church itself is an unprepossessing reconstruction after a devastating fire of 1771, but the Brancacci Chapel with the great Masaccio frescoes miraculously survived intact.
In a less madcap vein, Rokyo wrote Boss , a devastating portrait of the Daley machine and probably the best book ever written about city politics.