Word: mavericks
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DIED. SAM YORTY, 88, maverick former mayor of Los Angeles; in the city he governed during the stormy '60s. Yorty, a master at grandstanding, flip-flopped from liberal Democrat to hard-line conservative. Urging "integration without inundation," he inspired the most ire with his racial views. After three turbulent terms, he was unseated by Tom Bradley, the city's first black mayor...
...Corbusier was the most important architect of the 20th century. Frank Lloyd Wright was more prolific--Le Corbusier's built oeuvre comprises about 60 buildings--and many would argue he was more gifted. But Wright was a maverick; Le Corbusier dominated the architectural world, from that halcyon year of 1920, when he started publishing his magazine L'Esprit Nouveau, until his death in 1965. He inspired several generations of architects--including this author--not only in Europe but around the world. He was more than a mercurial innovator. Irascible, caustic, Calvinistic, Corbu was modern architecture's conscience...
...different style. He has done battlewith Jesse Helms. He really is sort of in thetradition of Teddy Roosevelt, Class of 1880,Nelson Rockefeller, that wing of the Republicanparty," Mahony says. "And he's a maverick...
Microsoft had been dogging Netscape almost from Day One. In early 1994, according to Jim Clark, the maverick Stanford professor who co-founded the company, Microsoft wanted to license Netscape's code for $1 million. But Clark sent word that he wasn't "even remotely interested...
...fitting. Look at any recent film by the Former Artist Known as Coppola. Check your local theater marquee, where endless variations of the same $100 million jokey-action movie are displayed. Or consider that the company making the most maverick pictures today, Miramax, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Disney. It's enough to make you want to stay home and read a book...