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Florida was once a swampy rural backwater, the poorest and emptiest state in the South. But in the 20th century, air-conditioning, bug spray and the miracle of water control helped transform it into a migration destination for the restless masses of Brooklyn and Cleveland, Havana and Port-au-Prince. Florida developed its own ventricle at the heart of the American Dream - not only as an affordable playground and comfortable retirement home with no income tax but also as a state of escape and opportunity, a Magic Kingdom for tourists, a Fountain of Youth for seniors, a Cape Canaveral...
Perhaps the emptiest void to be filled--or at least the most noticeable--is the one left by goalie Sarah Leary, a first-team All-Ivy selection, two-time All-American and Harvard legend...
Goode's constructed fragments of staircases are among the emptiest works of art ever to travel east of the Rockies, and Ruscha's variations on the painted word-as-object, which derive from Jasper Johns, are so cute that Alloway's normal eloquence is reduced to calling them "deceptively obvious." In fact, their obviousness is not deceptive; it is just obvious. And Ramos, whose Batmen and Playboy Bunnies go as far as pop ever went in unctuous, opportunistic triviality, seems to be in the show merely to illustrate an amusing feedback loop between pop and commercial...
...months of the year and raise their averages by packing them in during the summer rush. The biggest winners on the North Atlantic are two lines that cater to the ethnic trade: Israel's El Al last year ran 68.8% full, and Irish-Aer Lingus scored 68.5%. The emptiest carrier on the run was Japan Air Lines, with...
...scene that has been emulated the world over. By contrast, the French seem hesitant, even fearful about tapping those resources of the imagination and intellect that once struck the rest of the world as being virtually inexhaustible. They have discovered, for the time being at least, that among the emptiest mantles of grandeur left by De Gaulle was his promise of a cultural renaissance...