Word: metropolises
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His Arab brethren also share pride in Nasser's achievements at home in the years since Suez. Cairo, a city as populous as Chicago, has become a bustling, busy metropolis. New skyscrapers line the banks of the Nile, throwing glittering light on the river at night and by day...
Only the kiddies, in any case, are likely to sit through this bushwa. Sodom is presented as a mighty metropolis, the New York of the Negev; actually, it was more like the Atlantic City of the Dead Sea, a boom town that got brimstoned about 1900 B.C. And the Bible...
The mood is the complex and precarious mood of creative crisis and the moment comes in the life of a middle-aged painter (Kees Van Dyk) who is beginning to discover that success has problems as well as pleasures. To satisfy the public appetite for his work he paints too...
Metropolis by metropolis, New York City's Robert F. Wagner Jr. was taking the measure of some dozen European cities during a month-long vacation.
No trains stop at the city of Mahagonny, on the Gulf coast of the U.S., and no steamers list it as a port of call. But to informed, between-wars German theatergoers, the imaginary town was a metropolis of almost legendary fame-a strange amalgam of jazz-age New Orleans...