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...obsessed with being clean. And yet it occurs to me that as I walk the paths of campus and the streets of Cambridge, I leave trails of trash everywhere I go. I might as well be chopping trees to bits and scattering them in a concrete wasteland. I might as well be holding a cigarette lighter to the ozone layer--burn baby burn...
...Scheme Z isn't going to take houses, but the value of the land is being vastly undervalued for the future," McManus says. "Just because it's industrial wasteland now doesn't mean it has to be in the future...
...These days, Ghost and Pretty Woman are the big-hit exception, not the norm; moviegoers tend to measure heroism in terms of pectorals. Somewhere ! between Rambo and bimbo, between roles for children (the only age group in which the movies employ more females than males) and the over-40 wasteland, lies the precarious terrain where fine young actresses can do fine work. Just now that acreage is the property of Julia Roberts, currently starring in Sleeping with the Enemy. Her combination of girl-next-door beauty, canny vulnerability and great good fortune in roles quickly begat hit movies (Steel Magnolias...
Fearing persecution, ethnic Greeks chose to flee at the first word that border guards would not stand in their way. The countryside the refugees left behind is a wasteland of want. Virtually the only meat rural families saw last year was half a chicken distributed to each household on Nov. 29, the National Day. By contrast, even the icy refugee camps, such as Kalpaki in northern Greece, seem like paradise, providing shelter and plentiful food. Said a high- ranking Greek official: "The question is, Where does one draw the line? We don't want to make them feel too comfortable...
...derogatory. The Europeans have always been fascinated by wanting to know what's going on with this big, ogreish subcontinent across the Atlantic, this potentially dangerous, constantly mysterious country called the U.S. of A." American popular culture fills a vacuum, vulgar or not. "French television is a wasteland; ours is a madhouse. But at least it's vital," says Styron. "Dallas and Knots Landing and the American game shows are filling a need in France...