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In writing as in real estate, the operating word is location. Readers like to travel, to escape to a setting, preferably hot, sticky and fatally glamorous. Certain television producers understand this instinctively, which is why Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas do not star in a show called Toronto Vice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Urban Razzle, Fatal Glamour | 9/28/1987 | See Source »

To sustain such a character for nearly 1,000 pages, Moorcock provides an exotic itinerary, a robust cast of opportunists and scoundrels, and a series of dangerous adventures and sexual escapades. Pyat's first stop on his flight from Bolshevism is Istanbul, a teeming cosmopolis of thieves and whores but...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Westward Ha the Laughter of Carthage | 1/28/1985 | See Source »

Many of them were created by T. Logan Evans'85 council member during the fall. Declaring that he believed "in a unification of the planet with in the U.S. system" in his "Theory of the Cosmopolis," Evans sought the council's chairman-ship proposing massive weekly trivia quizzes in Harvard...

Author: By Tammy Huang, | Title: Lighter Side | 6/9/1983 | See Source »

Perhaps the Yard is only another symptom of over-expansion: might it not be that the University has become the Cosmopolis of Spengler, a huge petrifact, whose inhabitants view it exclusively as the instrument of their individual advancement or pleasure? In that event, it would be useless to expect anyone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Alors! | 5/11/1983 | See Source »

Andreas Karl Reiser Cosmopolis, Wash.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 8, 1978 | 5/8/1978 | See Source »

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