Word: imperfections
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bayliss' death awakens Mullen's lingering doubt, as he pursues a new story of sinister government machinations to hide the truth. The predictable series of close calls and astonishing revelations continues on schedule, until the eventual triumph of truth as guaranteed by a free-if imperfect press...
...case, a recurrent dream of L.A.'s contemporary collectors is a museum of one's own. One could get much the same tax benefits by giving the stuff to LACMA or MOCA, but then the museum might choose to sell some off, suggesting that one's taste was . . . well, imperfect. Douglas Cramer, the TV producer who gave a grateful world Dynasty and The Love Boat, has turned his ranch and vineyard at Santa Ynes into an art foundation (even the bottles carry chaste line drawings of vine leaves by Ellsworth Kelly on their white labels; the artist made a special...
Like the artist in her story, Atwood sketches the "imperfect flesh" of those who "show signs of the forces acting upon them, who have been chipped a little, rained on, frayed, like shells on the beach." Not beautiful people, these characters, but in the author's quick hands they are something far more intriguing and valuable: they are alive...
Gehry, 57, has lived in Southern California almost continuously since he was a teenager, and his buildings are Californian -- brash, unpretentious, ad hoc, construction-worker constructivist. For him, imperfect construction details and urban sprawl are now American givens: the challenge is to make buildings that are compelling in spite of off-the-rack materials and confused, banal surroundings...
...Meese. For as Jefferson noted two centuries ago, the founders "laid their shoulders to the great points, knowing that the little ones would follow of themselves." And as Tribe's latest book, God Save This Honorable Court, clearly shows, the very breadth of the Constitution makes it an imperfect guide in specific matters. Such vague phrases as "unreasonable search," "equal protection of the laws," or "due process," writes Tribe, "not only invite but compel the Supreme Court to put meaning into the | Constitution" rather than simply trying to take meaning from...