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...among the architects themselves there is an undeniable ferment, unlike anything in "classical" Modernist architecture. The receding tide of orthodoxy has left all manner of different organisms exposed on the reef. At one taxonomic extreme is California's Frank Gehry, 49. Gehry prefers materials-corrugated iron, chain-link fence, asbestos shingles, raw plywood-that allude to the commonplace substance of 1960s sculpture, and his formal interests frankly lie with what he calls "a fascination with incoherent and illogical systems, a questioning of orderliness and functionality." At the other
...most by Mellon, who was made an honorary Knight of the British Empire in 1974. Literature, another Mellon love, gallops as Knight's Tale, Winter's Tale, Canterbury Tale and Love for Love; and geography, the places Mellon owns, shows up in horses like the famous Mill Reef, named for a landmark near the Mellon house on Antigua in the West Indies. There is even a touch of the Mellon humor and a possible title to this inadvertent autobiography in a stallion named Key to the Mint. Because if anybody has it−the key to the mint...
...wild around the hotel's thatched bungalows, each of which has a wrap-around view of the lagoon. Every evening Arthur, his wife Patti and their four children munch breadfruit chips; dinner is a choice between fresh tuna and turtle steak. Says Arthur: "The minute I crossed the reef I knew I'd found paradise...
Every evening Majuro's Americans gather at the yacht club. It is a reunion of sorts, since many breakfasted together at the Kozy Korner diner. The yacht club is a converted garage decorated with reef charts and Japanese fishing floats. From either side of the club one can hit the Pacific with an ice cube...
...actual examples of a libertarian society in action, although he suggests that the Founding Fathers thought along somewhat libertarian lines and implemented many libertarian principles when they designed American government. The only attempt to set up a totally libertarian world occurred when a group of libertarians claimed a coral reef in the Pacific as their own nation, with hopes of filling in enough land to establish a tiny island-nation where a libertarian paradise could reign. Their hopes were demolished when an envoy of angry tribesmen from a nearby island informed them that the island was already their property...