The exposé is written by the Boston-based author Ben Mezrich, who has previously, and controversially, chronicled the deeds of Las Vegas gamblers, high-powered financiers and Japanese gangsters.
No good deed in American business these days goes unadvertised, and that goes double for the deeds of Jamie Dimon, the high-profile chief of the nation's largest bank.
In the nation of Fordlandia, taking pictures with people is an immaculate deed of the highest magnitude.
I am as simple a sucker as anyone for depictions of dark deeds in high places, and I will cozy up to "The Parallax View," say, whenever it shows on TV.
Those unsatisfied by the face value of high and ancient people committing low deeds have had many metaphors to turn to.
Jordanes' other extant work is the chronicle De summa temporum vel origine actibusque gentis Romanorum ("The High Point of Time, or the Origin and Deeds of the Roman People"), also completed in 551 and called the Romana.
A more serious cynicism is provoked, of course, by the void that yawns between the high ideals forever being expressed at the UN and the less elevated deeds of some of the governments expressing those ideals.
A revealing example is her translation of the Preface, which, as many scholars have observed, cannily appropriates the high-flown language of Homeric epic to a revolutionary new project: to record the deeds of real men in real historical time.
The title deeds of Radio City?
We want chariot races out there, deeds of derring-do.
