Word: metropolises
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World War I, with its machines that dealt death rather than hope, further darkened the view of things to come. In 1927 the famous German moviemaker Fritz Lang released Metropolis, the idea for which came to him when he first saw, from shipboard, the glaring lights and tall buildings of...
Month in, month out, the Harvard Film Archive reminds us of the Mumia Abu-Jamal case through a screening of Mumia Abu-Jamal: A Case for Reasonable Doubt?, directed by John Edington. This has been promised to continue until the trial is brought true justice. This month is no different...
Ironically, after a burst of motivation and a couple of informal trips into the city, I am now Harvard's ambassador to the metropolis across the river. My new job, it seems, will be getting on and off of a bus once a week, and seeing who and what is...
The Getty is, in many ways, not about the art, and, not surprisingly, most Angelenos don't seem to care. No matter how long the lines and how mediocre the art viewing in these first overcrowded months, the people of the Southland, and really from all over the world, will...
Since 1980, Airborne has grown from 300 employees to 7,000, many of them commuting from as far away as northern Kentucky to sort packages in three vast warehouses that look like sets from Fritz Lang's Metropolis, with intersecting webs of conveyors and catwalks bathed in a yellow fluorescent...