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...soprano, presents a sumptuous assortment of operatic arias on DIVA! A SOPRANO AT THE MOVIES. Her finely colored voice with its firm vibrato is not elitist, and she sings this collection of songs that have made their way into films with a passion and abandon that would make Madonna envious. Garrett's plaintive Voi che sapete, from The Marriage of Figaro, and her flirtatious plotting in Quando m'en vo, from La Boheme, are the answer for those looking for substance in their tunes...
...Fritschel and Finkelstein should be proud. In fact, he insists that he and his fellow nerds are labeled anal "only by our enemies." The epithet has derived from "pure envy by those orally fixated Harvard students," he says, explaining, "Anal people tend to succeed in life. Others are just envious. It's nothing else...
...name architects have precious little to do right now. So when Richard Meier's final designs for the J. Paul Getty Trust's vast art center, a $360 million, six-building museum-and-art-scholarship wonderland, were unveiled in Los Angeles last week, it wasn't just his envious peers who paid attention. Meier won the commission over 32 fellow architectural stars (including Charles Moore, Frank Gehry and Robert Venturi) back in 1984, and given the prominence of the project and the deep-pocket client, every year the architect spent tweaking his design only raised the stakes higher. "Architecture," said...
Throughout the book, Coupland creates a vocabulary for this generation without a voice. For example, members of the twentysomething generation occasionally feel a touch of "boomer envy"--envy of material wealth and long-range material security accrued by the baby boom generation. Although they're envious of baby boomers' successes, Generation Xers refuse to put up with the hippie nostalgia of their elders...
...billion dollars? Other than through marriage or inheritance, acquiring a billion dollars or some reasonable fraction thereof, I've decided after years of envious analysis, requires some combination of five things: Talent (which includes intelligence and imagination); Energy (which includes hard work); Resources (which include cash, contacts and education); Desire (which when sufficiently extreme can include a willingness to be ruthless or criminal); and Luck (which includes dumb luck...