Word: metropolises
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THE MACGUFFIN by Stanley Elkin (Simon & Schuster; 283 pages; $19.95). Bobbo Druff, 58, is a washed-up pol serving time as city commissioner of streets in a minor-league U.S. metropolis. His wife of 36 years is going deaf; his son Mikey, 30, still lives at home; and his health...
That joyful scene was staged amid the ruins of what had been a gleaming metropolis. It was backlighted by towering orange flames on the horizon where hundreds of oil wells, torched by fleeing Iraqis, continued to burn and block the midday sun with huge curtains of dense black smoke. The...
There is nothing as quiet and relaxing as an empty beach on a cool spring day. The natives may have learned to ignore the allure of desolate wind-swept beaches. But after half a semester in an urban metropolis, few things are better at making painful memories of failed problem...
The works, interesting on their own, in combination force the audience to reconsider the metropolis' impact on man and to disregard any `typical' perspective.
Overall the exhibit is thought provoking and commendable for its contrasting styles and depictions of the urban existence. Because the artists portray varying understandings of the city, the misconception of a "typical" metropolis and its effects is shattered by the diversity of the show. In the end, the exhibit relays...