Word: ficus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Twinkle, twinkle. The tiny white lights glitter in the ficus trees by the pool at Skybar in the Mondrian Hotel, Los Angeles' latest shrine to the good life. At 10 o'clock on a weeknight, poolside is alive with people drinking and smoking and looking superb. Some are rich, but many more are having fun pretending. Five years after rioting tore this city apart, they are lounging on huge, posh communal beds, sipping their drinks, floating in the bubble of this long good run and wondering, some of them, when it will burst. They thought the crunch was coming when...
...where to go for dinner? Or weekly grocery shopping? Can mad passion possibly transcend daily arguments about the merits of renting or buying? Getting a loft or a duplex? Living uptown or downtown? Hardwood floors or carpeting? Whether to have kids or simply get a Labrador and a ficus tree in the garden...
...ignores the facts and charges the man with stepping over the line. He fights back. Crichton says he got the idea from a friend, presumably male, who told him about an incident in the workplace. That was the seed, and then Crichton cogitated, watered it as you would a Ficus, which seems to be his method. The result is provocative, which seems to be his pattern. To read it in this charged climate makes a man want to holler, "Slap leather, boys, and head for that line of trees!" Acknowledges Crichton: "It has been suggested that now is the time...
...office of senior editor Howard Chua-Eoan, who edited this week's cover story on the Rocky Mountain boom in addition to our coverage of Michael Jackson's woes and the frantic behind-the-scenes fine-tuning of Bill Clinton's health-care proposal. Instead of a more traditional ficus plant, a 6-ft.-tall inflatable Godzilla peers from one corner of Howard's work space, while Gumby covers the exit. A prehistoric pteranodon (with a 6-ft. wingspan) swoops over story conferences from its perch on the ceiling. Souvenirs sent from all over the world by friends and colleagues...