Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...superrich built themselves palaces on New York City's Fifth and Park avenues, which were much satirized. But the red-hot site of Gilded Age extravagance was Newport, Rhode Island, where the very rich congregated in the summer. Here, in what they called with false modesty their "cottages," they engaged in rituals of consumption and display that were so extreme, competitive and self-referential that they eclipsed anything done in private American building before or since. Newport confirms the piercing insight of Henry Adams, lamenting the crassness of his time: "The American wasted more money more recklessly than anyone ever...
...technology that brought digitized dinosaurs to life in Jurassic Park has not advanced considerably, Spielberg notes, "but the artistry of the creative computer people has--they graduated from freshmen to the senior class by making movies like Casper and Jumanji. There's better detail, much better lighting, better muscle tone and movement in the animals. When a dinosaur transfers weight from his left side to his right, the whole movement of fat and sinew is smoother, more physiologically correct." Adds Industrial Light & Magic computer-graphics ace Dennis Muren: "We built the instrument for the first movie; on this...
From its stone fortress overlooking Rock Creek Park, the Behl clan has steadily gained influence since 1916, when Senator Adolph Behl aspired to become Vice President of the U.S. His failure to get the nomination left his wife doubly disappointed: first because she was denied a higher rung on the social ladder; second because her husband could not even fulfill his ambition to become second best...
...exception. He is concerned about how historians will rank him as a President. If he is forced to choose between a policy decision that will burnish his image and one that will advance Gore's candidacy, it is unlikely that Gore's interests will prevail. NATHANIEL H. KAROL Highland Park...
...came to be thankful because it made me fight harder to survive. States need to get tough to break the cycle of welfare, or the problem will never go away. Wisconsin's rule requiring recipients to work enables people to be contributors to society. TINA M. CAPARELLA Cameron Park, Calif...