Word: decays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...printed card that reads: "The only purpose for your activity is to get results." He has always followed that advice. A native lowan and Purdue University engineering graduate, Johnson worked as an assistant commissioner of health in New York City, where he learned firsthand about another environmental hazard: urban decay. His practical experience and accomplishments in New York made him a natural choice to head the environmental service after it was created in July...
...troubled central cities, the most visible housing difficulty is of an entirely different order -a lack not of buildings but of neighborhoods deemed fit to live in, even by the poor. As a consequence, acres of houses and apartment buildings have been abandoned by their owners and tenants to decay...
...montage is violently edited, aggressively recreating this warped perception. Unlike Bogdanovich's Targets, where endless L. A. street footage is accompanied by characters lamenting its over-all ugliness, Antonioni's L. A. is active in his characters' lives. The scene is lightweight taken as a judgment on urban decay. Seen as Antonioni's interpretation of landscape, it provides a clue for an audience seeking a way to watch the film...
...fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay...
full employment and a burgeoning list 31 other advances have not been matched by an end to poverty, racism or urban decay. More and more critics argue that obsession with economic growth has tended to blind men to the dep redations that it leaves in its wake...