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...January 1997, Bush was in a meeting with Ralph Marquez, his appointee to the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission, the state's environmental agency. Near the end of the meeting, one of Bush's staff members made a reference to something called "grandfathered plants." "What are those?" Bush asked. Marquez explained that in 1971, when the state's Clean Air Act was passed, the bill had exempted all existing industrial plants from the new antipollution regulations. (Texas is funny that way.) Lawmakers assumed that many of these aging plants would soon shut down, but that didn't happen. They just...
SNOW WHITE MARTHA GRAHAM LOUIS ARMSTRONG MILES DAVIS SEAGRAM BUILDING GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM BILBAO THE GREAT GATSBY T.S. ELIOT MARY QUANT BLUE POLES: NUMBER 11, 1952 CITIZEN KANE PABLO PICASSO COCO CHANEL RALPH ELLISON LUCILLE BALL GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ IGOR STRAVINSKY SGT. PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? OKLAHOMA! WAITING FOR GODOT...
Exhaustively portraying the events of a single day, June 16, 1904, in Dublin, it has comic exuberance, encyclopedic inclusiveness and a virtuoso display of diverse narrative styles that make most subsequent novels look like spin-offs. RUNNERS-UP One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez; Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov...
...Prize is really not such a big deal and a conclusion that portrays literature as a heroic struggle for the future of the human race. None of this is very original, and in this case it does not gel together very well. Past Nobel Lectures like Saramago's, Garcia Marquez's and Faulkner's have done many of these things better and more coherently. But originality and style are minor points. It's the message that bothers me, commonplace...
...Alberto reads popular magazines, complex novels and hometown news in whatever spare time he finds. "I like W," he declared. "You figure out what styles arecoming out." He recently finished Cronica de Una Muerta Anunciada (Chronicle of A Death Foretold), by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. "He's Columbian," Luis explained, "but heis lived in Spain, Mexico and Cuba. He told Fidel he was going to help, and he did. Fidel adores and admires him. He started a school of cinema there and has a house." Many stores in the area sell publications from El Salvador. "I keep up with the sports...