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...usually constructed of homely materials -- unpainted metal and plywood, asphalt shingles, stucco, rough concrete. They typify no up-and-coming architectural trend. In the postmodernist era, when much fashionable architecture has been charming and playful and not much more, Frank Gehry's difficult, edgy buildings are singular and brave...
...brave cadre of Europeans and Americans still living in West Beirut face the daily prospect of being kidnaped, knowing that at best they might spend months in isolated captivity, and at worst their bodies might be found somewhere in the bombed-out city's rubble. Last week one potential hostage managed to avoid such a fate...
...brave man will always...
...frequent traveler in the First and Third worlds, Theroux has undoubtedly seen excesses and disasters that have stimulated his imagination. His book's one flaw is that it is too observant. Descriptions and exotic details help build a brave new fictional world, but too many gadgets and repetitions can obstruct characterization. Perhaps that is what the author intended; he usually keeps a cool emotional distance from his characters. Yet his ambitious conception has the power to raise readers' temperatures, by taking them back to the future and the chance for a new beginning...
...Philmont Scout Ranch, a wide-open, 241-sq.-mi. Boy Scout camp in northern New Mexico, 15,000 scouts each year learn to set up tents and brave the elements. Rain and wind, bugs and varmints -- no problem. But bears...