Word: metropolises
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IT HAS NOT been a particularly good year for New York City. The City, it's true, didn't go slurping down the financial tubes. But the election of Jimmy Carter certainly did nothing to reassure the quivering Metropolis--forget for a moment those Wall Street types and Rockefeller Foundation...
In his extraordinary new novel, The Family Arsenal, Paul Theroux's characters often are lost like this somewhere in the heart of the city. In fact, stumbling through England's dark, damp, declining metropolis becomes for Theroux like reading that dark, damp, declining novelistic form of sharp turns and blind...
Gunned Down. Ever since Phoenix's emergence from a parched cow town in the early 1940s to a steamy Southwestern metropolis in the '50s and '60s, criminal elements have flocked to the desert country and flourished. Land fraud has proved the most profitable enterprise, but racketeers have...
Staying just far enough away from reality to parody it, Berliguer and the Professor mocks the present in its vision of the future. The irony lies heavy from the first chapter. Milan is referred to as "the natural shelter for all American, German and Swiss capital drawn by the stability...
> In New York, hallowed old Yankee Stadium, the house that Ruth built, reopened in plushly refurbished form, its dedication presided over by Mayor Abraham Beame. It was 53 years from Babe to Abe, but the difference in what a community will lavish on its sports team could be measured in...