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...always had mixed feelings about one of their best-known native sons. They took pride in the achievements and fame of Frank Lloyd Wright, arguably the 20th century's most original architect, who died in 1959 at 91. Yet they also deplored his bohemian life-style, his arrogance and bombast, his leftist politics and above all his predilection for scandal. In 1909, to cite one notorious example, he abandoned his first wife and their six children to carry on a flagrant affair with a client's spouse. One result of Wisconsin's ambivalence: while the state has several houses...
Strangely enough, after the introductory panegyric, there is some rather engaging and insightful analysis. Unfortunately, most of us will be too buys gagging on pompous bombast to notice...
...conventional Washington wisdom is on the mark, this year's installment should be particularly compelling. The Judiciary Committee will be pitted against a friend and a colleague, Sen. George M. Mitchell (D-Maine). Compelling yes, but probably without the rhetorical bombast and incendiary accusations that have tainted some recent hearings (no, not Bader-Ginsburg...
This year's games, in bucolic Lillehammer, in serene Norway, promised to be more than usually escapist. The ideological bombast between East and West has vanished without even the vestige of the old order that marked the Albertville competition in 1992 -- the "Unified Team" of swiftly separating nations that were united only in rejecting their common heritage. This year's tiny host nation, a folksy land of reindeer and trolls, has welcomed the world with no harsher intention than occasionally overcharging for a beer...
...that have hiked the price of metro tickets from five kopeks to 30 rubles, pushed middle-income households toward the poverty level and withheld wages from such key constituencies as the coal miners. But like the U.S. billionaire, Zhirinovsky had far more to offer in the way of firebrand bombast than coherent policy. "Zhirinovsky has no program and offers no alternatives," says Marie Mendras, a Russia specialist with the National Foundation of Political Science in Paris. "He simply reflects the mood of the population today, which does not want to see the continued deterioration of daily life...