Word: boundlessness
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...smart growth" Democrat who was elected last year. Barnes has proposed a regional transportation authority that can block local plans for the new roads that encourage development. But dumb growth is not confined to Atlanta. Half a century after America loaded the car and fled to the suburbs, these boundless, slapdash places are making people want to flee once more. "All of a sudden, they're playing leapfrog with a bulldozer," says Al Gore, who wants to be the antisprawl candidate...
...everyone agreed, one of the planet's best dinner companions. At once sardonic and curiously boyish, he was both autodidact and polymath--his curiosity and his information equally boundless. To a film critic he might recommend some recondite movie that he had caught but that the latter had carelessly missed. To a filmmaker desperately behind schedule, he might offer to share his state-of-the-art editing suite to speed things up. To a harried studio executive, he might provide an evening of baseball nostalgia, centered on the New York Yankees, beloved since Kubrick's Bronx boyhood. Maybe Warren Beatty...
...head-for-the-hills survivalism that speaks nicely to the enduring American fascination with ingenuity and self-reliance. And as it has for decades, the prospect of apocalypse now also offers the promise of escape to millions of people alienated from a civilization of intimidating global corporations, boundless personal gratification and unnerving manipulations of nature, like cloning...
This collection of random musings from the monologist-actress and chic wit again makes the case that Bernhard's brand of observational humor is like no one else's. In her new work, Bernhard draws on her boundless imagination to pay homage to her housepainter, Jewish mysticism and Brenda Vaccaro while conjuring up ad campaigns for Mother Teresa-inspired day wear. Do we mind that Bernhard's reflections can be a bit too solipsistic, a bit over the top? Nope...
Surely the happiest instances of commercial eccentricity have been those in which an entrepreneur's quirks spur success. In fact, it could be argued that such people are capitalism's finest and most inspiring flowers: their greatest wealth literally is themselves. One such is Kathryn Falk, 58, whose boundless love for romance novels has led her to produce conventions, magazines, newsletters and tours. Falk also sells chocolates and other items to women who share her passion. Her annual Romantic Times Booklovers' Convention draws some 5,000 and features a male beauty pageant and a costume ball. During a 1997 Romantic...