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When a man has been a state legislator at 22, a judge at 24, a multi-millionaire at 35 and mayor of a metropolis at 41, what else is there left for him at 53 but to build a suitable monument to himself? For Houston's Kubla Khan, Roy...
The offices-on-the-bottom, apartments-on-top building seems a promising new concept for modern metropolis dwellers and real estate operators. Because of fumes, taxi horns and all-night neon signs, the lower floors of most centrally located apartment houses have been a drug on the market. By giving...
Then we began to put clues together. Lang's Secret Behind the Door, a 1948 variation of the L-A-M-H-S syndrome: a poor fellow develops a terrible compulsion to--you guessed it--kill women (because he thought his mother didn't love him). In Metropolis (1927), a...
The Ivy Leaguer, however, must see New York as a college of electives, extending to him the paradoxical gifts of privacy and participation, of loneliness and union with the ultimate queerness of humankind. This is because New York is so constructed as to soak up everything without (necessarily) inflicting a...
During the question period Freyre was asked, in a variety of Latin accents, whether Angola and Mozambique did not with to rid themselves of the Portuguese and their culture. He replied that the colonies are seeking only governmental autonomy. "They are enthusiastic about a Lusotropical community provided that Portugal is...