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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...
...Conscience of the Eye is not a sentimentalist tract. It issues no call for a neoclassical revival, for an America dotted with cinderblock Romes and girdered Spartas like some overgrown theme park. Rather, this extraordinary book attempts to rebuild the Roman civitas and the Greek polis as much in our selves as in our surroundings. It proposes to break down walls and open up spaces to reveal vistas too long blocked off from view. And even if this book causes no cities to be razed or rebuilt, it will surely broaden avenues in its readers' minds
...becoming what I always feared the most: a permanently overgrown bureaucracy. In Texas I'm getting disturbing conflict-of-interest reports about government lawyers who work on contracts and then quit and come back on the other side of the table on the same deal...
...package. So what if the closest Vanilla Ice came to the Florida ghettos was watching reruns of "Miami Vice"? His CDs weren't bought to trace his life--they were bought for the music associated with the enigma called "Vanilla Ice." Likewise, Milli Vanilli albums weren't purchased for overgrown braids in biker shorts, but for the music associated with that image...