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...Danson (Sam), Rhea Perlman (Carla) and George Wendt (Norm) have all bombed in series over the past year. NBC Entertainment president Warren Littlefield signed up Veronica's Closet for only 13 episodes, but he notes that Alley's producers, Kevin Bright, Marta Kauffman and David Crane, the creative team behind Friends, weren't just handed the precious post-Seinfeld time slot as a gift. "On other shows, producers drink wine and congratulate themselves after each take," he says. "Not these guys. They keep rewriting. The reason their shows are so satisfying is they are never satisfied...
...education becomes private; this is the nub of it. It is out of sync with the conventional images of education in America. Write about those images: the teacher is a pale, bloodless deacon, drained by unrequited longings, preposterous, out of things. She is the withered maiden; he is Ichabod Crane, humiliated to death by the village nitwit. The only way he gains respect is to become Glenn Ford in Blackboard Jungle and beat up the classroom hoods. There are exceptions like Mr. Holland's Opus. But the rule is Arnold in Kindergarten...
...last cycle, the figure went to $30 before the market became saturated and rents slumped, taking property values down with them. The time to start worrying about REITs is when a new development boom begins, probably years off. "Look around New York," Hash says. "There isn't a construction crane in sight...
Today Shanghai is one vast construction site. More than 20,000 projects, including 5,000 major ones, are under way as 27,000 companies build bridges, tunnels, flyovers, ring roads, hotels, villas, golf courses and public housing. The "crane," quips Vice Mayor Zhao Qizheng, should be designated the city's official bird...
Dickey was never enrolled in the obedience school of political correctness. He came from an earlier time, and anyway, his profoundly masculine imagination had a luminous, incorruptible autonomy. You may pick up traces of Walt Whitman or Gerard Manley Hopkins or Hart Crane--or Theodore Roethke, who was one of Dickey's favorites. But Dickey was himself--a now and then wild American, good at putting his own myths in motion and intoxicated by the English language. English professors called him "Orphic" or "Delphic," a prophetic delver, with an eye for nature and, interestingly, for the sometimes violent meanings...