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...with bargains. The innovative Coral Gables, Fla., firm Arquitectonica designed the mall in a wacky alligator shape, a nice touch considering its location at the edge of the Everglades. The Florida theme extends from the logo, a saw-toothed alligator, to parking-lot markers (a yellow toucan, a pink flamingo, etc.), to a windswept-looking Hurricane Food Court, complete with wind sounds and swirling banners. Shoppers stroll under palmetto trees down four "main streets" with themes ranging from Caribbean to Art Deco. And, for family amusement, miniature golf, roller skating and a movie theater are in the works...
Indeed, as cut-rate malls turn themselves into theme parks, with frills and flourishes and higher overhead costs, their primary advantage -- lower prices -- just might start to disappear. For now, though, did we leave the car by the talking toucan, or was it the pink flamingo...
...ruin of the Everglades between 1880 and 1910, especially by hunters of egret and flamingo plumes and alligator skins, is a likely topic for novelist and naturalist Peter Matthiessen (Far Tortuga; The Snow Leopard). Matthiessen has made the despoliation of the planet, as well as the ways in which men who work close to nature survive, his main concerns. Lord knows he has done his homework, and he details the destruction repeatedly and with bite. Here is how Bill House, a hardy plume hunter, sees the history of the region: "The Injuns was taking some egrets, trading 'em in with...
...that a woman politician, perhaps better than a man, can attempt the new and different. For San Diego is where the new is the norm and woman power is a dominant force in the political game. Here the "smoke-filled rooms," such as they are, tend to be flamingo- colored restaurants overlooking the Pacific surf. And here the "machine," such as it is, rests in the hands of a key coterie of women, especially three elegant ladies from the smart...
...talked, drank a drink. She was resting for a bit, but, even after an eight hour shift, she still felt like dancing. I told that I'd seen The Flamingo Kid the other night; that the father in it had said to the son: "There's two things in life. To find out what you enjoy doing, and what you're good at. If they're the same thing, then the gods are smiling...