Word: skyscraperism
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Readers of Rushdie's earlier novels will recognize the Moor's unusual affliction as a typical ambushing of the real by the preposterous. In his speeded-up growth, which makes him bigger than everyone else his age--"I was a skyscraper freed of all legal restraints, a one-man population...
Walt Disney himself had the original idea for a Disneyfied utopia, built under a giant dome, where residents would be whooshed from skyscraper to skyscraper on a high-speed monorail. As Walt envisioned it, no retirees would be allowed to live in his Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow, and nobody...
The most definitive trait of the "Die Hard" movies is that the danger is not only (or even mostly) to the hero, but rather to the many innocent people that hero, but rather to the many innocent people that the villain holds hostage. In "Die Hard," it was people in...
HER FRIENDS SAW A GREAT POIGNANCE IN HER, AND A GREAT YEARNING. BEHIND HER shyness there was an enormous receptivity to the sweetness of life and its grace. A few years ago, friends, a couple, gave a small dinner party for two friends who had just married, and Mrs. Onassis...
In 1985, at the height of real estate a-go-go, the developer and publisher Mort Zuckerman was chosen after an intense competition to erect a gigantic high-rise -- luxury condominiums! luxury offices! -- on government land at the southwestern corner of Central Park; he was a winner. But a coalition...