The larger-than-life character is a walking, talking embodiment of 1980s avarice and corporate malfeasance, a surrogate for real-life villains like corporate raider Ivan Boesky.

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He had foreseen mobile telecoms, iPods, wall-to-wall TV, talking trains and pedestrians arrested for walking the streets at night, but none of it was meant to spread unhappiness.

ECONOMIST: Ray Bradbury

Lisette was too frightened to react when the policewoman took hold of her arm at the elbow, not forcibly but firmly, as a female relation might, walking Lisette down the stairs, talking to her in a calm, kindly, matter-of-fact voice that signalled, You will be all right.

NEWYORKER: I.D.