Word: vision
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...Drugs, Rock & Roll Call Eric Bogosian a performance artist, monologist, short-story writer or even playwright. By whatever name, he is one of the shrewdest contemporary critics of the phony, the self-serving, the amoral and the damned. This off-Broadway collection of skits is a caustic vision of greed and substance abuse...
Most Disappointing Peek Through a Looking Glass If you get the wrong prescription at the local vision center, you can just go back and have it changed. Not so for NASA, whose incorrect prescription is spinning around the earth in the Hubble Space Telescope. Because a mirror was ground to the wrong shape, the space agency was saddled with a $1.5 billion instrument that performs far below expectations...
Gucci's new look is very much the vision of Dawn Mello, 52, who signed on as creative director last year. Formerly the president of New York City's upscale Bergdorf Goodman department store, the tall and elegant Mello set out to rebuild the image of the 68-year-old company by drawing on its successful past. "Gucci should be classic, but with an edge," she says. "It should not be boring...
Realizing the Sabahs' vision of a modern city-state required land expropriation -- an action that normally leaves individuals poorer but that the Sabahs contrived as a wealth spreader. After a straight-up appraisal of land and homes, people were compensated at rates that often surpassed five times market value. The newly "homeless" pocketed most of the money, since they were given low-interest loans to build new houses and were granted land that had previously been used by grazing sheep and goats...
Pontifell, who founded a smallscale publishing house called Thornwillow Press in 1985, plans to release 2000 of the 44-page books, which outline Kohl's vision for a unified Germany within the framework of Europe. The books also contain a short introduction by the German chancellor...