Word: grand
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...Hong Kong is one of the more stable denizens of a region where the once grand gown of the Asian Miracle is weekly growing more frayed and tattered. From Seoul to Bangkok, economies that earlier made annual double-digit growth look easy are now strangling on a lethal brew of skyrocketing interest rates, current-account deficits, shrinking budgets and rapid flight of the foreign loans and capital that in many countries underwrote the miracle. "Right now my feeling is one of despair," says a Jakarta stockbroker who has watched the Indonesian stock market drop 33% since July. (It was down...
...Baby grand piano...
...this sounds too good to be true now, it seemed downright ludicrous in 1991, when flamboyant media entrepreneur Chris Whittle announced his grand plan to build, by 1996, a nationwide chain of 200 private schools to revitalize American public education--for $2.5 billion. Because Whittle's communications company all but imploded in 1994, the Edison Project was radically scaled back, leaving education experts skeptical, lenders leery--and Larry Vaughn in a precarious position...
...then, Rauschenberg had stopped making his work from actual objects and was using overlays of silk-screened photos, an idea he got from Andy Warhol. The paintings--like Estate, 1963--that won him the grand prize at the 1964 Venice Biennale, with their high, bright color and rapid shuttle of images, conveyed an extraordinary impression of the electronic image glut that comes from TV. Through silk screen, Rauschenberg could now compress fragments of events as well as things into his work, giving it a heightened, broken-up documentary flavor--history painting for channel surfers...
...readers willing to push themselves along, however, Big Trouble has substantial rewards. Whether the subject is hard-rock mining, turn-of-the-century radical politics, Darrow's literary aspirations, or the rise of the American grand hotel, Lukas' digressions are richer and denser than some other writers' entire books. He footnotes his footnotes, which ruins the tale's momentum but makes for some informative side trips. Who knew that the Elks, the fraternal organization, was started by New York actors who worked all week and needed a Sunday wateringhole? Or that Darrow chose struggling writers for law partners, including...