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In Louisiana, politics and politicians have always been a fascinating business — and business is the word — but none of the bosses could compare with larger-than-life Huey P. Long (1893–1935).
Parker is remembered as "a larger-than-life field general who could wield the entire arsenal of the magazine to tell a story with power, insight and drama."
The government started its case, all the papers report, by contrasting Bill Gates' video deposition (displayed on a "larger-than-life screen" says the WP ; the NYT says "10-foot") in which he said he knew nothing more about an alleged market-carving meeting with browser rival Netscape than what he read in the newspaper (actually he mentioned the Wall Street Journal , a fact included by everybody--including the WSJ --except USAT ), with a Gates email in which he states "..
The agents' triumph was not complete, however, until the late 1980s and early 1990s, after all the studios had been bought by larger, mostly international corporations, and colorless corporate executives replaced the larger-than-life moguls of the studio era.
The tragedy of JQA's life is that, for all his spectacular achievements, he was doomed to feel inadequate next to his larger-than-life father.