Word: envious
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...Things to Come Readers marveled at our cover story on architectural innovations, pointing out mankind's intrinsic desire to leave a creative mark. But some wondered whether, despite all the attention being lavished on revolutionaries like Daniel Libeskind, there isn't still a bias toward tall boxes I'm envious of what adventuresome architects are achieving today with their unconventional, unearthly designs [April 25]. When I studied architecture in the early '70s, "Form follows function" was the mantra, and I was criticized for advocating any concept that dared to stray from the shoe-box straitjacket. But times have changed. Besides...
...that's a small price to pay for leading the creative life. "So many people say, 'Gee, I'm so envious. I wish I had something like that,'" says Dibner. "But I believe that everybody does have some creative response to life. You just have to figure out what...
...former guitarist with the 1970s band Gong who has since produced groups including Simple Minds. But Tékitoi? retains a strong north African flavor and reaffirms Taha's reputation as a politically engaged singer. In H'asbu-hum (Demand Their Accounting), Taha denounces the "murderers, oppressors, traitors, envious and rotten" who work to deny individuals their freedom in both the Western and Arab worlds. He delivers a similarly dual message in Lli Fat Mat (The Past Is the Past), urging listeners to embrace tradition for its richness rather than cling to it out of resentment or fear. "Turn...
...crowds the foolish, ignorant, and envious persons are freed from the sense of their insignificance and powerlessness, and are possessed instead by the notion of brutal and temporary but immense strength...
...Ruth's can't-get-a-date plight is underlined by her kid sister's attractiveness to every member of the opposite sex. (When Eileen is briefly imprisoned, she gets fawning butler and bodyguard service from the cops who have fallen for her.) It doesn't make Ruth envious, just depressed and - it's her nature - sarcastic. "Well, you must admit," she expectorates, when half of the Village shows up for one of Eileen's pot-luck dinners, "for bad location and no neon sign, we're doin' a hell of a business...