At a conference where most chief executives proceeded with euphemistic elegance — Mr. Ballmer stonewalled questions about negotiating for a piece of Facebook even as the deal was being consummated and gave a long answer to a question about Google without mentioning its name — Mr. Murdoch answered almost every question put to him, often naming names and frankly laying out his ambitions.
The movie's most famous scene was considerably toned down from James Jones's source novel, but, as the foam breaks and the orgiastic music swells, there could have been no doubt, even to a 50s audience, that this relationship was being thoroughly consummated.
Increasingly, though, classic recordings by these consummate individualists are being deployed as a sort of mood music, background noise for everything from Broadway drama to television hucksterism to coffee bar drinking.
"The probability of this transaction being consummated is materially less than 100percentt," said Samuel Buttrick, an airline analyst at PaineWebber.
Big trade news of the day, so far: The latest trade apparently being consummated is the one sending quarterback Kevin Kolb from the Eagles to the Cardinals in exchange for cornerback Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie.
It was reasonable to wonder if he was a little fat and happy with his new contract early in the season, but by its end he was being praised as the consummate team player.
"He is the face of the organization and he's been the consummate professional his whole career.
"He's been the consummate professional his entire career, so he's not going to respond or do anything out of character".
"For 15 years she's given her heart and soul to EastEnders – she's been a consummate professional, a national treasure and a joy to work alongside.
For most of his long life in television, he's been the consummate second banana third banana, really, if you go all the way back to Philbin's short stint propping up sidekick extraordinaire Joey Bishop in the 1960s.
