Word: bungalows
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...blue-gray bungalow on a lamppost-lined street in an unremarkable American neighborhood, squirms a man of sudden celebrity, Michael Crichton. The year just done was "pretty amazing," he says. The reason is that one book of his, Jurassic Park, became the biggest hit in movie history, and another, Rising Sun, was no slouch, and together they vaulted old writings even he had dismissed back onto bookshop shelves, where they became the stuff of authors' dreams: they were bought, not remaindered. There are 100 million copies of Crichton's books now in print...
Octavio lives better by betraying the system. We stop in front of his pristine white bungalow in the Havana suburb of Miramar. A knock on the door brings a discreet peek from behind freshly painted shutters. A voice murmurs to come around into the garden. Suddenly, we could be in Miami. American rock plays softly; red and blue lights color a trimly clipped lawn. Our host offers a hamburger, steak, perhaps a lobster? Red or white wine? A rum collins...
Back-to-natives gardening doesn't require a lush suburban spread; tiny Edens can sprout within the biggest cities. Ten years ago, video producer Jack Schmidling began constructing a woodland, a prairie and a wetland in the small backyard of his Chicago bungalow. Now his miniature ecosystems attract a wealth of winged wildlife, from birds to butterflies. While Schmidling is delighted, some of his neighbors are not. Although the enclave is concealed behind a high fence, they have reported him to the city, charging that his secret garden is an overgrown mess...
...year-old co-founder of New York City's "21" Club. Moreover, it does seem unfair to penalize a hardware salesman showing a catalog to a client while sipping Sanka, yet allow a movie mogul to fully deduct a $3,700 ride on the Concorde and a $600 bungalow at the Beverly Hills Hotel. On the other hand, it isn't Sanka-sipping salesmen but well-fed executives who most savor the deduction and spark the most resentment. And after all, why should a single nickel be deductible at a place like The Men's Club, a lavish topless joint...
...break with Sony was a watershed. The pianist cut his 100-concerts-a-year schedule in half and moved from his West Side Manhattan apartment to a quiet bungalow nestled in the woods near New Paltz. Last March he signed a contract with MusicMasters that will allow him to record the Germanic repertory he loves, particularly Bach and Beethoven. "Now everything is balanced," he says. "And I think that people finally are looking at me as just a musician, you know, not as a political hero or specialist in Russian music." For Feltsman, the cold war has finally ended...