Word: spoilsport
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...marching orders. And oh, the places Seuss is going! Even as we speak, the Cat in the Hat is ushering children through an elaborate ride at Seuss Landing, the 110-acre theme park that opened last year at Universal's Islands of Adventure in Orlando, Fla. The great green spoilsport stars in Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas, a big-screen adaptation costing well north of $120 million and opening Nov. 17. And on Nov. 30, Seuss's beloved elephant, Horton, will hatch his egg on a Broadway stage in Seussical The Musical. Universal and Imagine Entertainment also have...
...marching orders. And oh, the places Seuss is going! Even as we speak, the Cat in the Hat is ushering children through an elaborate ride at Seuss Landing, the 110-acre theme park that opened last year at Universal's Islands of Adventure in Orlando, Fla. The great green spoilsport comes to life in Ron Howard's "How the Grinch Stole Christmas!" a big-screen adaptation costing well north of $120 million and opening Nov. 17. And on Nov. 30, Seuss's beloved elephant, Horton, will hatch his egg on a Broadway stage in "Seussical the Musical." Universal and Imagine...
...Reaction was mixed. Some accused me of being a spoilsport and cursed my name; others, sensing more sport, sent their own theories along...
...that of a janitor than of an architect - and aren't easily swayed to the whims of politicians. Although most candidates are quite happy to discuss how to spend the budget surpluses that will, at least according to the more optimistic accountants, be generated by the boom, the spoilsport questions of what to do when the party ends simply aren't on the table in this election cycle. Yet most economic textbooks confirm that the economy runs in cycles and that even the most brilliant silver lining is attached, somewhere, to a cloud. After all, it's not a cornucopia...
Purdy doesn't wish to be a spoilsport. He's negative only about negativity. Temperamentally, he's an optimist who places his faith in action, not attitude. One issue close to his tender rural heart is the preservation of West Virginia wilderness from the mountain-leveling predations of modern coal mining. A student of law and forestry at Yale, he sees himself arguing his causes in court someday, but his broader goal is to spur a resurgence in grass-roots public activism. "We need today a kind of thought and action that is too little contemplated yet remains possible...