Word: lessing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...1990s, NASA's Dan Goldin has come across as the very model of a modern government administrator. Facing criticism that the space agency was wasting money, Goldin declared at the start of his tenure that he would turn the problem into an opportunity, finding ways to do more with less--and to all appearances, the strategy was working. The Mars Pathfinder Lander, built for a tenth the cost of its predecessors, riveted the nation's attention in 1997 with its live feed from the Red Planet's surface. And three years after its arrival Mars Global Surveyor is still sending...
...what's the attraction? Part of it is nostalgia. "Sheepherding harks back to an age when life was less complicated," says Wienir. "There's that ancient sense of pastoral peacefulness." Harried aristocrats from Marie Antoinette onward have unwound by playing peasant, and in flush times the middle classes follow suit...
There is little money to be had in sheepdog trialing; even the richest purses fail to break $3,000. Nor, for the less than dangerous, is there much glory. "You get knocked down," says Adrienne Paier Wienir, 55, an artist from Encino, displaying a fresh bruise on her forehead. "You get covered with dust and sheep snot...
...SOPRANOS This HBO drama reinvented the Mafia genre with Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini, in front), a besieged, postpatriarchal, Prozac-popping capo not truly the master of his family or his Family. But the show didn't stop there. Structured less like an episodic series than a seamless suite, it redefined TV storytelling. Watch it weekly, and it's an addictive saga; watch several at a stretch, and its rich vocabulary of metaphors and motifs submerges and resurfaces with novelistic grace...
...American Dream shows that such holiday breakdowns are more common than I thought. Among the 1,015 who were surveyed, 58% are trying to "reconnect with the joyfulness of the holiday," by cutting down on their consumption. It is counterintuitive at this time of year to concentrate on doing less for our families, but redirecting that holiday energy offers real rewards. Families that manage it will have fewer toys but more time, less debt and more satisfaction...