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...people fail to recognize it as their own irreplaceable culture?" The overriding threat is not posed by iconoclastic maniacs like Toth but by eminently respectable town mayors, government planners and chairmen of land-development companies, whose greed or laziness is transforming Italy's historic centers into a chaotic urban wilderness, its coastline into holiday camps lapped by a salty chemical soup, and its museums and churches into understaffed, crumbling fermentation chambers where works of art sit and decay...
...Highly jumbled chaotic terrain, including many canyons, some of which seem to have been carved out by flowing water in the recent geological past. The major feature of the region is a giant gorge that is reminiscent of the Great Rift Valley in East Africa. It is 2,500 miles long, 75 miles wide and nearly four miles deep...
...Angeles Lakers had just won their first National Basketball Association championship, and the proud, patient giant stood sweating in the chaotic locker room-a Gulliver indulging a swarm of Lilliputian newsmen. "For a long time," he said, "fans of mine had to put up with people saying Wilt couldn't win the big ones. Now maybe they'll have a chance to walk in peace, like...
...trustbusters are studying the case to see if the nine also should be brought before the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg. The companies may escape further chastisement, but for reasons that can give them only cold comfort. The cartel was terribly inefficient: prices fell, and markets were chaotic instead of orderly...
...with the two flutes; the crew checks the stage lighting, fading in and out on the three performers doing their warm-ups. Tom Johnson, the music director, stops by to check details, as do five others in the next fifteen minutes. The room is noisy and alive, but not chaotic. Everything focuses towards the metamorphosis into Brel...