Word: metropolises
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(4 of 10) metropolis passed the 4,000 000 mark by 1950, has grown by more than 200,000 a year ever since.
Today the city itself, with a population of 2,800,000, rambles through 469 sq. mi. of desert, mountain and valley. But the city is only the core of a vast, amoeba-like mass that makes up the Los Angeles metropolitan area, a 5,000-sq. mi. tract that includes...
By-Cracky Nonsense. Though Arnold has been peddling down-home songs for more than 20 years, this was his first appearance in Manhattan-and it marked a new era for country music. A few years ago, any country crooner billing himself as "The Tennessee Plowboy" would have been run out...
For all its soaring architecture and modern planning, Brazil's nine-year-old inland capital, Brasilia, is still more of a collection of government buildings than a metropolis. To help the capital become a city, Brazilian Hotelman José Tjurs last week closed a deal to start building a...
PHILADELPHIA, HERE I COME! Playwright Brian Friel, recognizing that each man carries within him both his severest critic and most appreciative fan, converts his insight into a striking dramatic device. Two Dublin actors-Patrick Bedford and Donal Donnelly-capture our fancy and sympathy as the public and private selves of...