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...more than a decade, Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, a Miami- based husband-and-wife team of architects and planners, have been reinventing the suburb, and their solution to sprawl is both radical and conservative: they say we must return to first principles, laying out brand- new towns according to old-fashioned fundamentals, with the locations of stores, parks and schools precisely specified from the outset, with streets that invite walking, with stylistic harmony that avoids the extremes of either architectural anarchy or monotony...
Simmering Suburbs. Four out of 5 Americans live in what the Census Bureau calls metropolitan areas. But this catch-all term can be misleading because such areas typically include the outlying sprawl that surrounds urban centers; moreover, many communities that call themselves cities actually have the character of suburbs...
...stretch of the road has a steep mountain wall on one side and a near vertical drop on the other, in places falling away for several hundred feet. Old men overtaken by exhaustion sprawl dangerously close to the brink. Other refugees step over them, too tired to lend a hand. Distressed mothers, wondering when dehydration and shock will claim their children, hold their diarrhea-plagued babies over the road's edge and let them relieve themselves...
Remember the network mini-series? It used to roam the TV plains: a big, lumbering beast that would show up two or three times a year, sprawl across nights and nights of prime time and attract (at least sometimes) hordes of viewers. Mounting costs and sagging ratings have pretty much forced the networks to abandon these extravaganzas. Instead, we get tidy two-parters, most of them either tacky soap operas (Danielle Steel's Kaleidoscope and Fine Things) or sensationalistic true-life crime stories (Love, Lies and Murder...
...thing that tends to separate the girls from the boys. "Women tell stories," she says. "Men do one, two, three, bop." The new funnywomen are anything but rote jokesters: like Robin Williams or Billy Crystal,they invent routines as they go along. Paula Poundstone, whose stand-up is a sprawl across a stool, ad-libs about 30% every night. When she was too broke to redeem her outfits from the dry cleaner's, she included the angst in her monologue: "It's like, the clothes are in jail. I go in every so often and say, 'Could I just...