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...many abandoned dwellings there are in the U.S., since the paradoxical problem has been only recently recognized and little studied. The phenomenon is most prominent in the aging industrial cities of the East and Midwest. By the best estimates available, 130,000 apartments and houses have been left to rot in New York City during the past four years-enough to house the population of El Paso. There are 950 vacant buildings in Chicago, 20,000 abandoned buildings in Philadelphia, 5,000 in Baltimore, at least 1,500 in Detroit, and around 1,000 in Boston and Washington. The trend...
...album was released about four months ago; we got it green and appetizing, it ripened quickly into prime yellow and as it moved through time, acquired the characteristic rich brown brocade textures of old age. But collected experiences usually start to smell of rot in due time. Except that it doesn't seem to be happening at all with Let it Bleed does it? The experience of playing it on the trusty Gramophone is still amazingly (by turns) uplifting and sobering and (always) worthwhile. Fruitful, one might even...
...time capsule recording the rot of American TV might well include the tape of the Dec. 17 Tonight show. Within that dispiriting 90-minute reel were a cough-medicine commercial, Phyllis Diller's laugh, and the on-the-air wedding of Tiny Tim, the fortyish boy soprano, to his 17-year-old Miss Vicki Budinger...
...become a parody of its original intentions. For one thing, the Federal Highway Administration has done virtually nothing to implement it. Because the law forbids rural-highway signs, many banks have also quit financing small billboard companies. Without cash for maintenance, a lot of billboards have been allowed to rot on the roadsides-becoming uglier than ever. Big billboard companies-still collecting rent on their legal signs in urban and commercial areas -are buying billboard locations cheap and building new signs, betting that the Government will not enforce the law in the foreseeable future. Some companies have also noted that...
...plotless. It saves time. Nothing is quite so easy as not to write a book for a show. If plot insists on cropping up, be opaque. A story line that cannot be followed may not be exposed for the meaningless rot that it is. Always assume that the audience has the attention span of an agitated grasshopper...