Home to the world's tallest building (the Burj Khalifa) and a seemingly endless patchwork of ambitious new developments, this city is in the throes of a constant metamorphosis; always changing, undeniably interesting.
The ideas would sound outlandish, except to those familiar with the scope of Coney Island's offerings at the turn of the last century: theatrical re-creations of naval battles and tenement fires, scenic railways, a mechanical racetrack ride, a seemingly endless variety just as ambitious for its time.
On a soggy evening on the last night of May under two large white tents set up on pier 26, I sat down with throngs of people at one endless table for the ambitious (RED) Supper.
As Congress spins its wheels with endless debate over immigration, an ambitious venture based in Sunnyvale, Calif., is trying to chart a more productive course aboard a 600-foot boat, or possibly a barge.
With a combustible mix of endless and highly interpretive rules, ambitious players and skyrocketing budgets, Rousmaniere said he was not surprised that lawyers were playing a prominent role in the lead-up to the Cup.
Indeed, the most ambitious of the grays desire endless acknowledgment.
Moreover, if my recent experience at La Becasse is anything to go by then, even allowing for the endless variables that could derail such a hugely ambitious project, Murchison might just pull this off.
Although much of the story of his rise is taken up by his contemplation of an endless series of job offers, he was not overtly ambitious.
It is funny, it can be moving, it is ambitious and it is tender about man's endless absurdities and failings — but does it have anything new to say about 21st-century American life?
The "Scottish play" remains one of Shakespeare's most frequently performed works; the tale of the ambitious thane, spurred into murder by his increasingly guilt-stricken wife, has inspired seemingly endless interpretations.
Endless scripted statements about doing the right thing by our children and saving the planet and the need for "ambitious action" blend into a wall of meaningless noise.
