Just as F Scott Fitzgerald said that personality was a series of successful gestures, credit is a series of successful payments.
It lacks the pressure of Lee's first two novels: Jerry Battle, an Italian-American, is not as complexly bound up as Henry Park and Doc Hata in the making of an immigrant's life of successful gestures.
In fact, F. Scott Fitzgerald's narrator, Nick Carraway, may just as easily be describing Don Draper when he says of Gatsby, "If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that register earthquakes ten thousand miles away".
The passage that summed up Gianni Versace best to me was: If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that register earthquakes 10,000 miles away.
The more obvious it is to the recipient, the more successful your gesture is! Finished.
"No one could have predicted in their wildest dreams that we would be this successful," Mr. Bloomberg said, gesturing to a chart that showed the steady rise in the graduation rates for all groups.
Some of the most successful of these gestures achieve evocative transformations without adding much: Martha Rosler's rope bridges, for example, succinctly conjure a world before cast concrete, while Karen Kilimnik proposes a layer of silver glitter inside and out, which seems both decadent and girly.
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In the play, the gesture is successful.
