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The discovery in World War I that scientific advances had also produced better engines of death and destruction turned speculation about the future excessively sour. Bellamy's radiant city became the high-tech slave societies of Yevgeny Zamyatin's novel We and Fritz Lang's silent film Metropolis. Aldous Huxley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Future Schlock | 10/15/1992 | See Source »

Metropolis. 533 Washington St, Boston. DJ and dancing to top 40 and R&B music. Call 338-6999 for more information.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Listings | 10/8/1992 | See Source »

Metropolis. DJ and dancing to R&B, techno and house music. 533 Washington St., Boston. Call 338-6999 for more information.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EVERYWHERE BUT HARVARD | 10/1/1992 | See Source »

What Hughes makes clear to us at the outset is that, like most any other city, Barcelona is made legible only in the context of its past. And the easiest access to the past is inscribed in the city's profoundly variegated architecture. "The political and economic history of Barcelona...

Author: By Juan Plascencia, | Title: Re-Inventions | 7/31/1992 | See Source »

Los Angeles may be the most mythologized city of our time: "The City of Fallen Angels," "The Land Where Legends Are Made," "The Capital of the Third World," "La-la Land"--the list of monikers for the metropolis goes on and on. Everyone from the Mamas and the Papas to...

Author: By David S. Kurnick, | Title: Pondering the Big Questions In the Land of Milk and Honey | 7/17/1992 | See Source »

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