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In a profile in the Washington Post last week, Burton recounted the story he has told before--in People , among other places--of how his father, a 6-foot-8-inch, 280-pound bully, used to pummel the whole family.
Todd Solondz, the skinny guy with the thick glasses and oddly passionate drone, had an art-house smash in 1996 with Welcome to the Dollhouse , which reinforced the perception that art-house smashes are pictures that take one bleak, uncommercial idea and pummel you into a stupor with it.
But if there are signs that a company's ability to deliver that kind of growth may be faltering--and IBM's announcement was a Vegas-style neon sign to that effect--then the market will pummel a stock quickly.
Finally, the meeting over, he races "out the back exit before they can pummel me."