Robbins loved the vivid trade lingo in "Whiz Mob," and he continues to pepper his conversation with such terms as "pit" (inside jacket pocket) and "prat" (side pant pocket), "skinning the poke" (removing the cash from a stolen wallet and wiping it off before tossing it) and "kissing the dog" (the mistake of letting a victim see your face).
They were collected by a 19th-century British marine biologist who wrote in vivid detail about trading a tomahawk and calico for a skull from a native family that he said had removed it from a burial site and transformed and decorated it in tribute to a dead male relative named Magau.
Somewhere in your consciousness, lodged there by CNBC, movies, documentary films, or Tom Wolfe's description of "young men baying for money," is a vivid picture of how trading works in the financial markets.
Videos of the 5 28 p.m. collapse of 7 World Trade lend vivid support to the truss-failure theory.
The Denver Nuggets are coming to Madison Square Garden on Saturday, bringing with them a fluid, egalitarian offense, a gleaming win-loss record and a vivid reminder of the trade that irrevocably altered the Knicks' destiny.
The story begins and ends with scenes of Aunti B leaving her apartment of many years to go to a nursing home in a white stretch limo that Karl has ordered, but is most compelling in the creepy-funny central scene, where Alex backs Aunti B's cleaning woman and caretaker, Esmeralda, into a bathroom and has a vivid sexual encounter that trades equally in titillation and humiliation.
Vivid words create more vivid pictures.
Deep skepticism about the advantages of free trade was on vivid display during the Democratic primaries and it is growing in Europe, particularly as France, Italy and other countries have fallen into an American-style economic malaise.
Such trade-offs were on vivid display last week in Ohio, where layoffs have been rampant.
The 135 workers at Green-Wood had a horrifyingly vivid view of the burning World Trade Center.
