President Obama has been accused of promoting small-ball ideas in his second term, but the proposal he unveiled on Thursday is a big one: using sharp federal pressure to make college more affordable, potentially opening the gates of higher education to more families scared off by rising tuitions.
Saez-Gil figured he'd be a good person to spit-ball ideas with and asked him to meet for coffee to discuss.
He skeptically spit-balls ideas to Harriet -- who begins to make them happen.
These CEOs won't suggest hard-ball ideas to boost demand.
The revolving heart of The Jive Talker, the Holy Ball idea will be Kambalu's passport to Amsterdam and then the London art scene, where he continues to kick charmingly about, the living embodiment of good news from Africa.
Since James had only been at the coffee company for a couple of years and was still learning the fair-trade marketing ropes, he filed the green soccer ball idea in the back of his mind for nearly a year.
(Wait a second: I am clearly stealing this disco ball idea from my mother, who in fact has my sister's wedding favor mirror ball hanging from her living room ceiling).
(When "South Park," the other bawdy blockbuster cartoon on the air, parodied "Family Guy," it showed manatees creating story lines by poking at balls with ideas written on them).
What if this is a choppy but unavoidable transition between one paradigm — one coherent ball of ideas, power structures, economic theories, values, behaviors — and another?
When he repeats this last trick some years later with an airborne beach ball, the idea has lost its lightness.
As in the sibling sports, once you have the ball the idea is to free up someone, or free up yourself, to shoot — by picking and rolling, by dodging half a dozen ways, and even by resurrecting basketball's old-time weave (Hopkins's spaghetti offense).
