Word: ghosting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first major exhibit of fish decoys opened last week at the Museum of American Folk Art in Manhattan. The decoys range from unadorned wooden designs to the elaborately painted "ghost fish" of Michigan carver Hans Janner Sr. "The most highly valued fish decoys are charming, but they are also fabulous at doing their jobs as tools," says Ben Apfelbaum, curator of the exhibition. Not all decoys are expensive. Contemporary Native American wooden fish can be bought...
...today the City By the Sea offers the worst of urban America. Visually, it's a ghost town whose rotting buildings are mere remnants of its glorious past. Driving up Pacific Avenue and into the Inlet, it's obvious that time has passed this town by. Most of the collapsing store names that hang above the small businesses which line both sides of Atlantic Avenue don't even match the products being sold below. No one has ever bothered to replace the signs...
...lingering ghost of the last City Council was put to rest Monday night, as the new council voted to repeal a December ordinance that critics contend could have removed hundreds of apartments from the rent control system...
...what happens to cities? Do they become ghost towns...
...know what the function of the city will be. Look, the medieval cathedral functioned more as a town cultural center, school and governmental center than as a church most of the year. Nobody lived in Chartres. I do not see our cities as ghost towns so much as a congeries of ghettos -- the city is already becoming a place where only the very rich, the very young and the very poor live. The middle class works in the city but doesn't live there. Those enormous central offices we have built in the post-World War II period...