Word: overgrown
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Chicago bungalow. Now his miniature ecosystems attract a wealth of winged wildlife, from birds to butterflies. While Schmidling is delighted, some of his neighbors are not. Although the enclave is concealed behind a high fence, they have reported him to the city, charging that his secret garden is an overgrown mess...
...have left behind the overhunted west bank of the Ndoki, where elephant trails are abandoned and overgrown. On the east side we see fresh signs of elephants everywhere. We do not, however, see the great beasts. Because of the vast territory they roam, and perhaps because of their ability to communicate with one another, they are the only creatures in this ecosystem that know about humans. They stay away from...
...only slowdown in London comes in musicals. The handful of creators who, in various permutations, have brought forth Cats, Phantom of the Opera, Miss Saigon and the like have nothing new or imminent. Still, an irresistibly energetic and shamelessly folksy overgrown cabaret show, Five Guys Named Moe, featuring jazz of the 1930s and '40s and nonstop dancing by an all-black cast, has taken London by storm. It is headed for Broadway next April, complete with group singing of calypso bebop and a whole-audience conga line at intermission...
Eisner is ambitious in the best sense. Like the founder of his company, or an overgrown child, he thinks big and will not take no for an answer. He wants to redeem Walt Disney's dream for Epcot -- it was supposed to be an Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow -- by creating a new town on 3,800 acres at the southern end of his Florida fiefdom. Eisner's vision is a mixture of the predictable ("the biggest mall in Florida"), the high-minded ("I've been obsessed with creating a new chautauqua") and the intriguingly original ("We want to build...
...matter what the state legislature does, Dinkins is headed for a showdown with his own city council. The council favors a different budgetary approach, based on $639 million in new taxes instead of the mayor's $1 billion. In addition, council members want to pare down the city's overgrown bureaucracy, targeting 14 agencies and offices for elimination or transfer of functions. In dealing with unions, the council would tie wage settlements to productivity, an innovative idea in a city where unions still have clout. Says council speaker Peter Vallone: "The days of tax and spending are over, not just...