Word: cluster
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...Venice and Constantinople. Soon after the Emperor Constantino the Great established his new Christian Rome by the Bosporus in 334 A.D., Constantinople, the fabled golden city of Byzantium, became the matrix of European civilization. During Constantinople's rise, Rome was a tract of ruins and Venice only a cluster of wattle huts on a lagoon mudbank...
...even tarter women. It is the secret of thunderous clouds menacing El Greco's Toledo; the acrid fire consuming the bodies of heretics during the Inquisition; the melancholy strains of a guitar played after a day's labor in the fields; the gnarled branches of the olive trees that cluster throughout the sun-beaten hills. It is the legend of the independence of the leather-skinned Basque farmer, of the fiery spontaneity of the Andalusian anarchist, of the Catalonian workers who stopped work two hours one day to listen to Pablo Casals play the cello on the radio...
Against a dark background, a pinkish ovarian follicle swells until an egg bursts forth and sails along the convoluted lining of the fallopian tube like a miniature moon over a mountain range. Sperm, their tails thrashing, cluster together like salmon awaiting a signal to leap a waterfall. Cells, pulsing with life, divide and reproduce. Finally, in a scene reminiscent of the fadeout of 2001, a fetus, its already human form visible through a transparent amniotic sac, fills the screen. These spectacular images (see following pages) are not the products of a Hollywood special effects department. They are frames from...
Generally, blacks still cluster together, whether in city or suburbs. "I wouldn't think of moving into a white neighborhood unless other blacks were there first," says Sandra Dillard, a reporter for the Denver Post. "You see, we are secure in some ways but not in others." Like other American ethnic groups, blacks also prefer the company of one another, and when they have a community such as Atlanta, it is easy to see why. The city remains the black showcase of the nation. Some of America's wealthiest blacks live in suburbs hardly distinguishable from those inhabited...
...earned his reputation in urban design not for crafting architectural prima donnas, but for building what he has called "good neighbors," edifices which easily fit into the scheme of the city. Pei, in a 1971 Business Week interview, said he believes that "A city, far from being a cluster of buildings, is actually a sequence of spaces enclosed and defined by buildings." The architect has said that he refuses to compromise or ignore the residents in his designs. In a Time interview in 1964, shortly after receiving work of the Kennedy project, Pei proclaimed that "architecture must not do violence...