Word: metallism
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...cost a frugal $8 billion and go online by 1992. Dreaming up so grand a machine turned out to be a lot easier than designing it, however, and over the next eight years, NASA spent a staggering $10 billion drawing and discarding blueprints, without a single piece of metal ever getting cut. "The space agency has no clue how to develop anything large anymore," says James Muncy, a former staff member on the House Space and Aeronautics subcommittee...
Consider U.X. Open contestant Donnie McFadden, 30, a steakhouse chef, heavy-metal music fan and newly minted golf nut from Hobbs, N.M. His fashion sense is decidedly more WWF than PGA: tank top and shorts, shaved head, piercings and a sun tattoo across one forearm. "Golf shouldn't be about age or tax bracket," he barks. Laughs Michael Caruso, editor of Rupert Murdoch's new Gen-X magazine Maximum Golf (which claims a circulation of 300,000): "There's something to be said for anything that explodes the old form. Whether these things will ever catch on, I'm doubtful...
...blob that can mutate but maintain its basic identity." (Think of Liz Taylor in the '80s.) Lynn gave them swelling wall systems that can be easily manufactured in differing configurations. And in the New York City Presbyterian church that Lynn designed with Douglas Garofalo and Michael McInturf, metal stairway enclosures course along the exterior in dynamic, rolling strides...
...worlds beyond anything demanded in traditional American sports (which may be why Americans are so put out by cycling - most of us realize we can never, ever be that fit, and it makes us vaguely uncomfortable). So we go back to our putting greens and swinging our little metal sticks, and avoid contemplation of our inadequacies...
...might have thought the new, as yet unnamed Sony PDA was the sixth Backstreet Boy for all the attention lavished on it. Built to run Palm software, the new Sony (exhibited under glass--no touching, please) is thinner and lighter than other Palm devices and, with its sleek, brushed-metal finish, quite a bit sexier. It's also rumored to include brand- new entertainment and digital imaging features, but Sony was cagy about the details. Look for it on catwalks early this fall...