Word: iconoclastic
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...approach when he was mayor of Liverpool, in western Sydney, calling residents' groups "precinct committees"; they quickly ran out of steam. On a national scale, it's a giant leap to think government "can live on the edge of politics" and be radically pragmatic. Is that really what the iconoclast is planning? It's already happening in the suburbs, argues Latham, in schools, child-care centers and sports clubs. Governments should enable outsiders to get on with running things themselves...
...launched not just a book but a genre: confessional, and often sexually charged, works of fiction and nonfiction by young, neophyte women trying to capture the Zeitgeist of hard and fast living in a roller-coaster China. The latest to let it all hang out is teenage iconoclast Chun Sue's Beijing Doll. This semiautobiographical novel, first published in 2002 when Chun was just 17 and which was recently released in English, chronicles the turbulent life of Chun, a high school dropout who shares the same name as the author. For Chun, school is an annoyance that keeps her from...
...easy being an iconoclast. Just ask Miguel Adrover, the New York City designer who has been hailed as a virtuoso since his debut three years ago but who lacks the requisite funding to show at Fashion Week this season...
...Caribbean. “They say the way to avoid dengue fever is to avoid mosquitoes,” he said. “That’s tough in Haiti.” Matt Espy gave a harrowing account of his life as a blue jean-hating iconoclast. “No one’s feeling me on the blue jean issue,” he lamented...
...Eames, and Philippe Starck's pale green barstool made for German film director Wim Wenders' house. The most eye-catching is Australian Marc Newson's Lockheed Lounge, a sensuous plastic shape covered with riveted aluminum panels. The metal has even worked its way into fashion. Spanish design iconoclast Paco Rabanne made a 1968 minidress from aluminum rectangles held together with wire loops. He was so enchanted with the result that he announced he had abandoned his needle and thread for pliers and a blowtorch. The latest use for aluminum is in automobiles. New car designs from Audi and Jaguar...