Word: metropolises
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But to a mass audience, the old regionalist's pronouncements were oracular. He was, after all, a reformed modernist: up to 1918 he had painted "lifeless symbolist and cubist pictures," full of "my aesthetic drivelings and morbid self-concerns." He had studied in Paris, the Antichrist's lair...
22. Which mayor of New York promised to "preserve the metropolis from the Red Army"?
Prime Minister Gough Whitlam flew home from London, cutting short a European tour, to oversee the most massive rescue operation in Australia's history. Darwin is the continent's most isolated city: almost 2,000 miles from the nearest metropolis, with no rail link to the rest of...
The vocabulary of The Seven-Per-Cent Solution is true enough--there are plenty of invernesses, ulsters, and muftis; hansoms, fiacres, and landaus. But the action is too quickly transplanted to Vienna, and so misses the iniquitous intricacy of the London street map. London, beshrouded and inscrutable, is the sprawling...
Such vast quantities of fissionable materials not only raise the specter of nuclear proliferation but also of deranged people or extremists making their own nuclear weapons. It no longer is absurd to imagine Palestinian terrorists or urban guerrillas stealing enough Pu-239, hiring scientists and manufacturing an easily transportable nuclear...