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Imagine Cool Hand Luke, the Hustler or even Butch Cassidy somehow making it all the way to his sunset years. Then imagine him measuring out those years as an unemployed, virtually unemployable, construction worker in one of those small, featureless upstate New York towns -- still a knothead, still a wise guy in revolt against the conventional wisdom, still very recognizably Paul Newman. That, in essence, is Nobody's Fool...
...make hipness a force in mass culture. The hipster's stylish alienation was irresistible to youth, for whom style is the best defense against anxiety and alienation is the natural state. For suburban teens in particular, hipness became what romance novels were for Madame Bovary: an antidote to the featureless local realities. In subdivisions where the lawn sprinklers went back and forth, back and forth -- the metronomes of the trudging suburban eternity -- a Bob Dylan album and a late-night movie performance of Putney Swope could seem like blows against the Empire...
...both hot and stale as pilot Eduardo Domaniewicz patrols the sea off Key West. The aquamarine water of the Straits of Florida, so beautiful at first, becomes monotonous after three hours of scanning. Cuba lies just 38 miles to the south, but the horizon here is flat and featureless. The only sound is the lulling drone of the Cessna's engines. In fact, it is so boring and so suffocating in the cabin that two of our spotters are nodding off. Then, abruptly, the radio comes alive: "Stand by for a surprise!" yells a voice, that of another pilot...
Above all, he is a relentless hunter of disease genes. Finding a gene embedded in long, nearly featureless spirals of DNA, he likes to observe, is harder than locating the proverbial needle in a haystack. "At least a needle looks different from a haystack," he says, "but a gene is just another piece of DNA." His love for lab work won't let Collins become merely a bureaucrat. He has already established his own research center at the National Institutes of Health so he and colleagues can continue their search for errant genes...
Harvard's vigor in this case contrasts sharply with its so-far lame response to the need for signs in another part of Harvard's domain. I am referring to the need for signs to guide the constant flow of visitors and newcomers walking to and over the broad, featureless overpass by Memorial Hall safely toward their desired destination...