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Ringed City. Unlike Calcutta, where long British ownership of the jute mills left a distinctly British tone to the city, Bombay has its own cosmopolitan, fiercely independent stamp. From the beginning, the flourishing textile industry was owned and operated by the Indians themselves. Bombay industrialists were treated by the British as potential customers for machinery rather than as colonial underlings. Textiles spurred the city's growth, but Bombay has confidently gone on to such new industries as oil refineries, fertilizers, synthetic fibers, and assembly plants for Italian autos and motor scooters. The city is ringed by plants making everything...
...Cosmopolitan Clangor. Stella's first published drawings, called Americans in the Rough, appeared in 1905. They were so compelling that in 1908 a magazine sent him to Pittsburgh steel mills and West Virginia coal pits to capture the look of common laborers, immigrants like himself. He did it with the skill of Renaissance masters: character surges from every pore of sweat-stained faces, submerged in subtle eddies of pencil and charcoal. In 1909 Stella returned to Italy, where he was born, and soon met the bellicose futurists. He absorbed their lessons of the violent involvement of forms and devotion...
...with his art. In his Battle of Lights, Coney Island, done in 1914, he depicted a warring scene of roller coasters, kaleidoscopic lights and jumbled humanity in a mosaic of maddening motion. His masterpiece, New York Interpreted, finished in 1922, is a 22-ft. pentaptych guidebook to cosmopolitan clangor. The port drags the viewer in to see a leaping skyscraper, two aspects of Broadway and a bridge-an extension of man toward a world beyond or above...
...their immunity to avoid legal reckoning. In Bonn the problem is heightened by the fact that some 95 embassies, legations and missions are crammed into one of Europe's smallest, most provincial capitals. High-living diplomats do not ease the tensions with their late, loud parties and cosmopolitan ways. But what really throws the shopkeepers of Bonn into a xenophobic rage is the unpaid debts run up by diplomats-particularly those from nations receiving German economic...
...south is the narrow corridor that gives Alabama access to the sea. The major seaport city of Mobile (pop. 202,000) likes to think of itself as a miniature New Orleans. A cosmopolitan place, Mobile exudes a certain Southern charm, with towering live oaks along the streets, and botanical gardens featuring beautiful azaleas and camellias. Though the harbor is Mobile's chief resource, industry too has come to town: Alcoa is there, along with a couple of paper mills and a fast-growing chemical industry. Like Huntsville, Mobile quietly desegregated its lunch counters without bicker or bother...