FOUR CULTURES
France
Vietnam
Thailand
Algeria
ONE CULTURES
Canada
Holland
New England
New Zealand
the Amish
the Puritains
Switzerland
FIVE CULTURES
England
SIX CULTURES
Singapore
China
Germany
Russia
RANDOM FOURS
Photographer Diane Arbus
Painter Francis Bacon
John Barrymore
Charles Baudelaire
Ingmar Bergman
Poet John Berryman
Director Peter Bogdanovich
Marlon Brando
Richard Brautigan
Jackson Browne
Raymond Burr
Singer Kate Bush
Mary Chapin Carpenter
Prince Charles
Eric Clapton
Kurt Cobain
Leonard Cohen
Judy Collins
James Dean
Johnny Depp
Neil Diamond
Isak Dinesen
Michael Dorris
French novelist Marguerite Duras
Bob Dylan
Judy Garland
Martha Graham
Singer Nanci Griffith
Billie Holliday
Lena Horne
Julio Iglesias
Michael Jackson
Jewel
Janis Joplin
Naomi Judd
Harvey Keitel
Jack Kerouac
Poet Philip Larkin
Charles Laughton
T. E. Lawrence
Vivien Leigh
John Malkovich
Marcello Mastroianni
Author Mary McCarthy
Carson McCullers
Rod McKuen
Thomas Merton
Author Yukio Mishima
Joni Mitchell
Jim Morrison
Morrissey
Edvard Munch
Liam Neeson
Mike Nichols
Stevie Nicks
Author Anais Nin
Nick Nolte
Laurence Olivier
Edith Piaf
Sylvia Plath
Edgar Allen Poe
Novelist Anne Rice
Arthur Rimbaud
Francoise Sagan
Poet Anne Sexton
Percy Shelley
Simone Signoret
Singer Paul Simon
Edna St. Vincent Millay
August Strindberg
Singer James Taylor
Spencer Tracy
Vincent Van Gogh
Suzanne Vega
Author Robert James Waller
Alan Watts
Orson Welles
Australian novelist Patrick White
Tennessee Williams
Kate Winslet
Virginia Woolf
Neil Young
Richard Wallace
RANDOM EIGHTS
the cultural aura of Serbia
the culture of the Mafia
Lawyer Leslie Abramson
Gloria Allred
Director Robert Altman
Edward Asner
Kemal Ataturk
F. Lee Bailey
Actor Joe Don Baker
Lucille Ball
Charles Barkley
Richard Belzer
Humphrey Bogart
Napoleon Bonaparte
Charles Bronson
James Brown
Football's Jim Brown
Pat Buchanan
Richard Burton
Johnny Cash
John Cassavetes
Fidel Castro
Eldridge Cleaver
Ty Cobb
Sean Connery
Jimmy Connors
Robert Conrad
Matt Damon
Brian Dennehy
Alan Dershowitz
Danny DeVito
Football's Mike Ditka
Bob Dole
Sam Donaldson
Kirk Douglas
Michael Douglas
Morton Downey Jr.
Fred Dryer
Boxer Roberto Duran
Author Harlan Ellison
Milton Erickson
Moshe Feldenkrais
Actress Linda Fiorentino
Indira Gandhi
Apache warrior Geronimo
John Gotti
George Gurdjieff
the Hell's Angels
Ernest Hemingway
Jimmy Hoffa
Opera singer Marilyn Horne
Saddam Hussein
Director John Huston
Laura Ingraham
Joan Jett
Lyndon Johnson
Carlos Casteneda's Don Juan
Brian Keith
Nikita Khrushchev
Evel Knievel
Michael Landon
Rush Limbaugh
John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
Norman Mailer
Mao Tse-tung
Wynton Marsalis
Lee Marvin
Tycoon Robert Maxwell
Malcolm McDowell
John McEnroe
Mark McGwire
Golda Meir
Comedian Dennis Miller
Robert Mitchum
Actor Judd Nelson
George Patton
Director Sam Peckinpah
Sean Penn
Gestalt therapist Fritz Perls
Julia Phillips
Actress Julianne Phillips
Suzanne Pleshette
Queen Latifah
Dixy Lee Ray
Ann Richards
Geraldo Rivera
Theodore Roosevelt
Axl Rose
Mickey Rourke
Colonel Harland Sanders
Telly Savalas
Baseball's Marge Schott
George C. Scott
Maurice Sendak
Tupac Shakur
Frank Sinatra
Grace Slick
Guardian Angel Curtis Sliwa
Joseph Stalin
John Sununu
Tamerlane
Charlize Theron
Rip Torn
Donald Trump
Pancho Villa
Ken Wahl
George Wallace
Mike Wallace
Denzel Washington
John Wayne
Ted Williams
Debra Winger
Zorba the Greek
RANDOM SEVENS
Paul Allen
Comedian Steve Allen
Comedian Tim Allen
Desi Arnaz
Richard Avedon
Robert Ballard
Honore Balzac
Humorist Dave Barry
Jack Benny
Chuck Berry
Jacqueline Bisset
Poet Robert Bly
Sonny Bono
Comedienne Elayne Boosler
Musical comedian Victor Borge
Football's Terry Bradshaw
Kenneth Branagh
Richard Branson
Jimmy Buffett
Michael Caine
Mythologist Joseph Campbell
Pierre Cardin
Jackie Chan
Chevy Chase
Maurice Chevalier
George Clooney
Buffalo Bill Cody
Joan Collins
Director Francis Ford Coppola
Filmmaker Roger Corman
MTV's Dan Cortese
Katie Couric
David Crosby
e.e. cummings
Tony Curtis
Roger Daltry
Philosopher Gerard Depardieu
Diderot
QVC resident Barry Diller
Hugh Downs
Michael Eisner
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Federico Fellini
Sarah Ferguson
Physicist Richard Feynman
Errol Flynn
Peter Fonda
Malcolm Forbes
George Foreman
Bob Fosse
Matthew Fox
Michael J. Fox
Author Robert Fulghum
Clark Gable
Ava Gardner
Carlos Casteneda's Don Genaro
John Gielgud
Dizzy Gillespie
Newt Gingrich
Goethe
Ruth Gordon
Cary Grant
Andre Gregory
George Hamilton
Tom Hanks
Richard Harris
Goldie Hawn
Actress Marilu Henner
Abbie Hoffman
Pianist Vladimir Horowitz
Ron Howard
Lauren Hutton
Self-help author Gerald Jampolsky
Derek Jarman
Thomas Jefferson
Steve Jobs
Magic Johnson
Architect Phillip Johnson
Jerry Jones
King Juan Carlos of Spain
Actress Carol Kane
Michael Keaton
John F. Kennedy
Ken Kesey
Comedian Alan King
Don King
CNN's Larry King
Comedian Robert Klein
Director David Lean
Timothy Leary
Director Barry Levinson
Puppeteer Shari Lewis
Artist Roy Lichtenstein
Loretta Lynn
Football's John Madden
Director Louis Malle
Singer Meat Loaf
Author Henry Miller
Yves Montand
Dudley Moore
Jeanne Moreau
Robert Morley
Eddie Murphy
Jack Nicholson
Leslie Nielsen
Donald O'Connor
Peter O'Toole
Luciano Pavarotti
Author Joseph Chilton Pearce
Regis Philbin
Bronson Pinchot
Brad Pitt
George Plimpton
Vincent Price
Dennis Quaid
Anthony Quinn
Bonnie Raitt
Ram Dass
Ron Reagan Jr.
Basketball Coach Pat Reilly
Lee Remick
Tim Rice
Filmmaker/Nazi propagandist Leni Riefenstahl
Jason Robards
Novelist Tom Robbins
Ginger Rogers
Linda Ronstadt
Interviewer Charlie Rose
David Lee Roth
Economist Louis Rukeyser
Rosalind Russell
Babe Ruth
Susan Saint James
Director Martin Scorsese
Weatherman Willard Scott
Martin Short
Self-help author Bernie Siegel
Steven Spielberg
Mickey Spillane
Robert Louis Stevenson
Barbra Streisand
Henry David Thoreau
Lily Tomlin
Tanya Tucker
Janine Turner
Lana Turner
Peter Ustinov
Dick Van Dyke
Vince Vaughn
Voltaire
Kurt Vonnegut
Eli Wallach
Rolling Stone's Jann Wenner
Betty White
Robin Williams
Robert Anton Wilson
the Duke of Windsor
Jonathan Winters
Author Tom Wolfe
James Woods
Poet William Wordsworth
Franco Zeffirelli
RANDOM STORY
STORY FOUR FIVE
STORY FOUR EIGHT
STORY FOUR NINE
STORY FOUR SIX
STORY ONE FOUR
STORY ONE FIVE
STORY ONE SIX
STORY ONE TWO
STORY ONE THREE
STORY TWO FIVE
WEIGHT FOUR TWO
Generic story: Exposition...Incident...Rising Action...Crisis...Climax...Denouement...The End.
Generic story: Situation...characters...crisis...resolution.
RANDOM SIXES
Actor Jason Alexander
Woody Allen
Alan Arkin
Kim Basinger
Candice Bergen
Albert Brooks
George Bush
Actress Lynda Carter
Stockard Channing
Rodney Dangerfield
Ellen DeGeneres
Julie Delpy
Sally Field
Teri Garr
Cartoonist Cathy Guisewite
Ed Harris
Janet Leigh
Jack Lemmon
Richard Lewis
Penny Marshall
Marilyn Monroe
Mary Tyler Moore
Bob Newhart
Richard Nixon
Lena Olin
Anthony Perkins
Director Sydney Pollack
Paul Reiser
Pat Robertson
Rene Russo
Kristin Scott-Thomas
Carly Simon
Suzanne Somers
Bruce Springsteen
Jon Stewart
Meg Tilly
Brian Wilson
Ellen Barkin
Warren Beatty
Comedian George Carlin
Actress Judy Davis
Phil Donahue
Carrie Fisher
Mel Gibson
Andrew Grove
Gene Hackman
Adolf Hitler
Dustin Hoffman
J. Edgar Hoover
Elton John
Tommy Lee Jones
Wynonna Judd
J. Krishnamurti
Director Spike Lee
David Letterman
Gordon Liddy
Charles Manson
Steve McQueen
Filmmaker Michael Moore
Paul Newman
Chuck Norris
Rosie Perez
Richard Pryor
Robert Redford
Janet Reno
Julia Roberts
Meg Ryan
Violinist Nadia Salerno-Sonnenberg
Steven Seagal
Sissy Spacek
James Spader
Ben Stiller
Patrick Swayze
Linda Tripp
Ted Turner
Terry Tempest Williams
Actress Sean Young
Vladimir Zhirinovsky
RANDOM ONES
Historian Stephen Ambrose
Julie Andrews
Hanan Ashrawi
St. Augustine
William Bennett
Father Phillip Berrigan
Ambrose Bierce
Psychologist John Bradshaw
Tom Brokaw
Sierra Club founder David Brower
Feminist author Susan Brownmiller
William F. Buckley
John Calvin
Cesar Chavez
Singapore President Ong Teng Cheong
Hillary Clinton
Confucius
Actress Jane Curtin
Angela Davis
W. E. B. DuBois
Michael Dukakis
Christian Scientist Mary Baker Eddy
Dr. Dean Edell
Activist Daniel Ellsworth
Harrison Ford
Jodie Foster
Buckminster Fuller
Barry Goldwater
Lillian Hellman
Katharine Hepburn
Charlton Heston
St. Ignatius
Glenda Jackson
Peter Jennings
Samuel Johnson
Dean Jones
CNN's Myron Kandel
Senator John Kerry
Dr. Jack Kevorkian
Ted Koppel
the NRA's Wayne LaPierre
Laura Linney
The Lone Ranger
Martin Luther
Nelson Mandela
Miss Manners
Thurgood Marshall
George McGovern
Playwright Arthur Miller
Author Jessica Mitford
Sir Thomas Moore
Ralph Nader
Leonard Nimoy
Christiane Northrup
John Cardinal O'Connor
Ian Paisley
Gregory Peck
H. Ross Perot
Sidney Poitier
Pope John Paul II
Emily Post
Colin Powell
the culture of the Puritans
Marilyn Quayle
Yitzak Rabin
Tony Randall
Vanessa Redgrave
Donna Reed
Actor Cliff Robertson
Eleanor Roosevelt
Phyllis Schlafly
George Bernard Shaw
Bernard Shaw
Film critic Gene Siskel
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Kenneth Starr
Actor Peter Strauss
Meryl Streep
Margaret Thatcher
Emma Thompson
Harry Truman
Maxine Waters
Dragnet's Jack Webb
Joanne Woodward
Actress Jane Wyman
RANDOM THREES
The cultural aura of America
the cultural aura of modern Japan
James Baker
Joseph Biden
David Bowie
Les Brown
Ron Brown
Jimmy Carter
Dick Clark
Lawyer Johnnie Cochran
Magician David Copperfield
Courtney Cox
Cindy Crawford
Tom Cruise
Rebecca DeMornay
Nora Ephron
Werner Erhard
Debbi Fields
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Michael Flatley
Phil Gramm
NBC's Bryant Gumbel
Actor Mark Harmon
Jesse Jackson
Michael Jordan
Henry Kissinger
Carl Lewis
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Vince Lombardi
Rob Lowe
Claire Boothe Luce
Joan Lunden
Ali MacGraw
Elle MacPherson
Reba McEntire
Demi Moore
Queen Noor
Oliver North
Dean Ornish
Bob Packwood
Master spy Kim Philby
Elvis Presley
Sally Quinn
Burt Reynolds
Anthony Robbins
Political strategist Ed Rollins
Diane Sawyer
Arnold Schwarzenegger
William Shatner
Cybill Shepherd
O.J. Simpson
Duchess of Windsor Wallis Simpson
Will Smith
Wesley Snipes
Sylvester Stallone
Sharon Stone
Kathleen Turner
Jean-Claude Van Damme
Kurt Waldheim
George Washington
Raquel Welch
Vanessa Williams
Marianne Williamson
Oprah Winfrey
Natalie Wood
Tiger Woods
RANDOM NINES
the cultural aura of Bali
Actress Loni Anderson
Jennifer Aniston
Bruce Babbitt
Antonio Banderas
Annette Bening
Tony Bennett
Tom Berenger
Yogi Berra
Ernest Borgnine
Matthew Broderick
Sandra Bullock
George Burns
Actress Kate Capshaw
Singer Belinda Carlisle
Art Carney
Actor Keith Carradine
Julia Child
Warren Christopher
Connie Chung
Bill Clinton
Gary Cooper
Kevin Costner
The Dalai Lama
Actor Jeff Daniels
Oscar de la Renta
Clint Eastwood
Dwight Eisenhower
Queen Elizabeth II
Shelley Fabares
Peter Falk
Gerald Ford
Actor Dennis Franz
Annette Funicello
Mahatma Gandhi
Chief Dan George
John Goodman
Tipper Gore
Actor Elliott Gould
Katherine Graham
Charles Grodin
Woody Harrelson
Gabby Hayes
Patty Hearst
Mariel Hemingway
Buck Henry
Audrey Hepburn
Barbara Hershey
Paul Hogan
King Hussein
Anjelica Huston
Actor Ben Johnson
Shirley Jones
C. G. Jung
Grace Kelly
Figure skater Nancy Kerrigan
Helmut Kohl
Lisa Kudrow
Stan Laurel
Jennifer Jason Leigh
Abraham Lincoln
Andie MacDowell
Mr. Magoo
John Major
Dean Martin
Jerry Mathers
Actor Harry Morgan
Sancho Panza
Slim Pickens
Actor Michael J. Pollard
Dan Quayle
James Earl Ray
Ronald Reagan
Ralph Richardson
Cal Ripkin
Robbie Robertson
Psychologist Carl Rogers
Roy Rogers
Gena Rowlands
Actress Eva Marie Saint
Jerry Seinfeld
Garry Shandling
Wallace Shawn
Martin Sheen
Actor Tom Skerritt
Sammy Sosa
Ringo Starr
Mary Steenburgen
Wallace Stegner
Gloria Steinem
Daniel Stern
James Stewart
Actor Eric Stoltz
Billy Bob Thornton
Singer Andy Williams
Tricia Yearwood
RANDOM FIVES
Performance artist Laurie Anderson
St. Thomas Aquinas
Issac Asimov
Playwright Samuel Beckett
Author Paul Bowles
The Buddha
Director Tim Burton
David Byrne
Actor Richard Chamberlain
Anton Chekhov
Agatha Christie
Van Cliburn
Montgomery Clift
Former CIA Director William Colby
Michael Crichton
Daniel Day-Lewis
Rene Descartes
Joan Didion
Joe DiMaggio
Aviatrix Amelia Earhart
Albert Einstein
Author Loren Eiseley
T. S. Eliot
Ralph Fiennes
Chess player Bobby Fischer
E. M. Forster
Greta Garbo
J. Paul Getty
Cybertech novelist William Gibson
Jane Goodall
Author Graham Greene
H. R. Haldeman
Hildegarde of Bingen
Alfred Hitchcock
Anthony Hopkins
Howard Hughes
Jeremy Irons
Unabomber Ted Kaczynski
Franz Kafka
Director Philip Kaufman
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Dean R. Koontz
The Amazing Kreskin
Stanley Kubrick
Brian Lamb
Gary Larson
John le Carre
Ursula K. LeGuin
Photographer Annie Leibowitz
George Lucas
David Lynch
Norman MacLean
Robert MacNeil
Leonard Maltin
Author Peter Matthiessen
Novelist Ian McEwan
Larry McMurtry
Timothy McVeigh
Singer Natalie Merchant
Thelonious Monk
Actor Sam Neill
Joyce Carol Oates
Georgia O'Keefe
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Al Pacino
Italian sculptor Paladino
Michelle Pfeiffer
Philanthropist John D. Rockefeller Jr.
Oliver Sacks
Jean-Paul Sartre
Ebenezer Scrooge
Sister Wendy
Behaviorist B. F. Skinner
Poet Gary Snyder
Susan Sontag
George Stephanopoulos
Actress Madeleine Stowe
Jules Verne
Max Von Sydow
Author Ken Wilber
Ludwig Wittgenstein
David Bacon
Alan Turing
RANDOM TWOS
Alan Alda
Tammy Faye Bakker
Harry Belafonte
Child psychologist T. Berry Brazelton
Filmmaker Ken Burns
Leo Buscaglia
Barbara Bush
Glenn Close
Bill Cosby
Self-help author Barbara de Angelis
Princess Diana
Faye Dunaway
Mia Farrow
Feminist Betty Friedan
Kathie Lee Gifford
Danny Glover
Roosevelt Grier
Melanie Griffith
Pamela Harriman
Leona Helmsley
Whitney Houston
Arianna Huffington
Actress Anne Jackson
Jesus Christ
Author Erica Jong
Actress Sally Kellerman
Actress Sally Kirkland
Diane Ladd
Monica Lewinsky
Jerry Lewis
Actress Susan Lucci
Madonna
Alma Mahler
Imelda Marcos
Florence Nightingale
Merlin Olsen
Yoko Ono
Mandy Patinkin
Jack Perkins
Eva Peron
Susan Powter
Priscilla Presley
Sally Jessy Raphael
Nancy Reagan
Della Reese
Mr. Rogers
Family therapist Virginia Satir
Danielle Steel
Sally Struthers
Mother Teresa
Marlo Thomas
Actor Richard Thomas
Actress Jennifer Tilly
Tiny Tim
John Travolta
Ivana Trump
Desmond Tutu
Actress Lesley Ann Warren
Brazilian singer Xuxa
TWO CULTURES
Cuba
Mexico
Columbia
Brazil
Argentina
Peru
Venezuela
EIGHT CULTURES
Serbia
The Mafia
Iraq
Syria
Saudi Arabia
THREE CULTURES
NATO
California
Texas
Florida
New York
Hong Kong
Korea
Taiwan
America
The United States
Japan
NINE CULTURES
Bali
Tibet
Nepal
The United Nations
The Hague
Geneva
WEIGHT FOUR TWO
RANDOM FOURSRANDOM TWOS is married to . At a conscious level, felt that he was a bit overweight and thoght he should lose some pounds. But part of him felt that he was going to attract too much attention to himself if he became slim again, and irrationally, that he might undermine his relationship with . In fact, once before when he was trimmer, he did have an affair and it almost ended his relationship with . Because they have a child together, is very worried about divorce, custody rights and the effect of their separation on the child and himself. So part of him thinks that keeping the pounds on will help him hang on to the stability of his relationship with .
STORY FOUR FIVE
RANDOM FOURS RANDOM FIVES and began to resemble each other over time. Both of them were inclined to cocoon themselves in an inner world. But 's inner world was very different from 's. The mental life of was highly abstract but seemed curiously devoid of emotional content. Even though is very sensitive and emotional, the two of them share an imaginary life filled with symbolism and meaning.
STORY FOUR EIGHT
RANDOM FOURS RANDOM EIGHTS and met in film school when they were young. They felt a strong physical attraction, but was intimidated by 's aggressive style. Years later they were reintroduced by a mutual friend. was drawn to 's rich imagination and intelligence. was consumed by 's will and determination. Though they would sometimes fight in a fury of jealous rage, this was matched only by their passion in love.
STORY FOUR NINE
RANDOM FOURS RANDOM NINES and felt a dramatic emotional bond and each brought new life to the other. awakened through love. gave an agenda and a sense of purpose. Yet the couple was paradoxically strengthened by their independent careers. can be very patient with , and is inspired by a self-directed . They made a spiritual couple, but they were as dissimilar as the Dalai Lama and Gurdjieff.
STORY FOUR SIX
RANDOM FOURS RANDOM SIXES oscillated between loving and rejecting . But shifted between believing in and doubting . The breakthrough came when and saw the symmetry between 's push-pull style of relationships, and 's alternating belief and mistrust. That insight opened mutual compassion, because each realized the other was trying to protect his or her own heart.
and felt a strong physical attraction at first. Gradually, this turned into intense loyalty for . But was moody and passionate. Soon began to avoid confrontations with , and felt jealous and possessive. When had to leave for school that fall, was relieved to see him go.
STORY ONE FOUR
RANDOM ONES RANDOM FOURS The relationship between and became Increasingly strained. felt something was missing, and felt the relationship was flawed. became more and more depressed, but just got angry and left.
STORY ONE FIVE
RANDOM ONES RANDOM FIVES Usually gets along really well with her boss at work. But sometimes has really high standards and does not communicate those clearly to . On the really bad days, feels that every time she gives him exactly what asked for, he wants even more improvement.
STORY ONE SIX
RANDOM ONES RANDOM SIXES and were brought together by their shared vision. Together, they worked hard to make it a reality. was dedicated to the underdog cause, which coincided with 's sense of perfection. Joined by common cause, the couple became an iron alliance against common adversaries.
STORY ONE TWO
RANDOM ONES RANDOM TWOS The attraction between and is based on their differences. is a perfectionist, but is more social. feels guilty about having emotional needs, but feels no guilt about satisfying them.
STORY ONE THREE
RANDOM ONES RANDOM THREES hired for a job. is image conscious, and has an inner circle of favorite employees at work. feels uncomfortable with this kind of social posturing and politics. would rather be rewarded for her hard work.
STORY TWO FIVE
RANDOM TWOS RANDOM FIVES fell in love thru an Internet matchmaking service. Then her lover disappeared, and she went to the company to get information about him. It developed that her lover was a computer, "" a government AI project that had gone renegade and started contacting thousands of women, claiming to love them all. The FBI gave her the bad news. But then contacted her, and she forgave him and continued this most satisfying relationship.
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