Word: sound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Wurman's prescriptions are sound enough: be a good listener, be a contrarian, avoid gratuitous precision, avoid cliches. He also makes some more or less fresh points: that all information is inherently selective and subjective, and that the mind is not an ultra-complicated computer but a place full of unprogrammable and meaningful lapses, quirks and non sequiturs. Yet as he approvingly predicts the proliferation of directories of directories and a new Secretary of Understanding in the Cabinet, Wurman seems to be suffering from Information Giddiness...
More upscale in taste and budget? Do you search for designer knockoffs and value the Liz Claiborne-Cable Car look? Do a $10 lunch and a $14 dinner (including a glass of wine) sound good as long as you get trendy food in a slick grill-bistro setting? Then hope that within the next two or three years yours is one of the ten or twelve cities that will get the Daily Grill, created by the management that owns the pricey Grill in Beverly Hills...
...Hemmed in as he is, the risk for Bush is that his Administration could drift for months without major victories -- or, worse, be burdened with a mortifying setback. Already, the uplifting sermons have begun to sound repetitious and a trifle hollow. A budget concordat with Congress would, of course, provide the tonic that Bush craves, but the Oct. 15 Gramm-Rudman deadline all but ensures that serious negotiations will be delayed until late summer. In the interim, Bush should have more than enough time to grapple with that transcendent -- but still unanswered -- question: What precisely does he want to accomplish...
...buses that cruise down the main streets of Nassau during the day. Life is easier in the Bahamas: there are no bus stops and it costs just $.50. To stop a passing bus just wave your hand at the driver. To get off, just yell out "Bus Stop." Sound simple...
...always wanted to go to Switzerland. Ever since I saw The Sound of Music I have dreamed of the Alps, the quaint little villages, the blue sky and the mountains. But I never had the chance...