Word: decays
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...things [designers] can do is show the way certain sites can be...transformed from decay to something usable," Rowe says...
McInerney's version of Vanity Fair brings to mind The Bonfire of the Vanities (1987), Tom Wolfe's memorably caustic social novel of Manhattan's decay. The two books, however, don't really resemble each other beyond their shared setting. Wolfe despises his characters and creates them in order to hold them up to ridicule, wriggling and in pain. McInerney cares deeply about the silly, grasping, ego-swollen pipsqueaks -- fairly decent, fairly normal people -- he invents. Wolfe's cold contempt gives the reader distance, a panoramic view of an ant colony. McInerney shows us human beings who feel wretched...
Nefertari's tomb, lost for three millenniums, was discovered in 1904. Its treasures had been looted, probably in antiquity, and its wall paintings had deteriorated. By 1940, in fact, the decay had become so severe that Egyptian authorities closed the tomb to the public. It seemed to have become yet another endangered landmark of ancient Egyptian civilization. But in 1986 the Egyptian Antiquities Organization and the Getty Conservation Institute of Santa Monica, Calif., embarked on a $4 million restoration project. The dramatic results were unveiled last week. Although access to the tomb will be limited for two years to scientists...
...Angeles riots have cast a spotlight on the problems of poverty and urban decay. But long before that explosion, the recession put welfare high on the political agenda by swelling public-assistance rolls with legions of unemployed workers. Around 4.7 million households, or 13.6 million individuals, are receiving Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), the main cash-assistance program. That's an increase of 24% in the past two years. The number of food-stamp recipients shot up from 20.9 million in October 1990 to 24.2 million a year later. The total cost of these two programs alone...
...blacks he needs to turn out in droves. When he turns back to recapture them, we'll hit him for supporting the conventional Democratic response of throwing money at the problems. The people who vote, the middle- class swing voters, hear 'city' as a code word for blacks and decay, for everything they've run to the suburbs to avoid. They're upset with the King verdict, sure, but they're more upset about their being the next white victim when they drive through the areas they've mortgaged their lives to escape from...