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TIME senior writer RICHARD LACAYO always seems to have one foot in our Nation section and the other in the Arts section. Those realms meld this week in his story on Frank Gehry, as Lacayo sizes up the architect's artistic and social impact. Not exactly a hardship assignment, the story required him to visit Gehry-designed structures across the globe, including those in Seattle as well as in Barcelona and, of course, Bilbao, Spain...
...security reasons), 20, the Mormon naif in the just-premiered ninth season of MTV's The Real World, in which this year's crew of twentysomethings find romance and hurt feelings while sharing a New Orleans mansion. There's Joyce Bowler, 44, who persuaded her family to spend three hardship-filled months in a house outfitted with 100-year-old technology (or lack of it) for The 1900 House, a fascinating British show that made its debut last week on PBS. "[Celebrity] does become quite addictive," she says. "But you have to realize it's not your whole life...
That misfortune inspires good manners is not borne out by history, although one might be able to make a case for the reverse (not that good manners bring on hardship but that good fortune inspires bad manners). There is even evidence that rudeness may be good for business. Inspired by the success of restaurants and nightclubs at which customers are treated so rudely that they offer the staff bribes to ward off insult, many industries have learned to sell ordinary service as a luxury item. Such marketing concepts as first-class travel, executive floors in hotels, and personal shoppers...
...attended the general managers' winter meetings and began to float his resume around, and he remembers the hardship of trying to find work in the business...
Gienapp says the job can be hardship. Many professors devote their summers to intense research in preparation for publications...