Only someone with an extreme fascination for hardship would want a grass driveway in the Hudson Highlands, where the terrain is steep and the winters are icy.
While fashion in 2014 has swapped mega-platforms and 10in stilettos for midi-heels and pool sliders, extreme footwear, and our fascination with it, is in focus at the museum.
But because the conversation around diversity and representation has become so charged, does it mean that standards are impossibly high for what is essentially a romantic comedy that indulges in our fascination with extreme wealth?
Given the current fascination with extreme sports, it was probably inevitable that this storied place -- a spot of Buddhist myth" regarded by some as the model for James Hilton's Shangri-La -- would be recast as "the definitive white-water exploratory challenge".
With dreams of establishing himself in the film industry, the admirer of German expressionism, 1920's freak shows and silent movies, looks forward to experimenting with his love for the occult, extreme performance and his fascination with horror.
The fascination with extremes that drives the cello piece is explored more vigorously in Mr. Joneleit's String Quartet No. 6 (1999).
Worse, Ms. Murray's fascination with extremes, which in "The Caprices" yielded some harrowing and visceral glimpses into the Hobbesian condition of man, is put in the service here of a sensationalistic plot that appeals to the reader's cheapest, most voyeuristic instincts.
There is an inherent fascination with extremes in biology.
Extreme shoulders are a recurring fascination with designers, and this week we've seen them squared, pinched and inflated like a linebacker's.
Despite our fascination with the extreme ends of the power distribution, the reality is that most employees possess a middling amount of power and must repeatedly alternate between interacting with higher and lower power colleagues.
