Word: skyscraperism
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In Going Crazy Otto Friedrich recognizes the extreme dubiousness of an inquiry into the irrational. To avoid the narrowing of scope that must occur if the subject is to be coherent and focused, he has a novel solution. He ignores definitions. This is a tinkering of philosophy because, like the...
The last time I was there I went to visit a friend who lives in a building in the French Quarter that everyone calls The Skyscraper because it is four stories tall and when it was built 150 years ago it was the highest building in town. It's now...
These scenes of derring-do are the third great virtue of the film. Part of the credit goes to the scope of the adventure--a harpoon being shot from one skyscraper to another, a million gallons of water drenching the banquet room--but most of it goes to the intensity...
To pay for all those services, New Yorkers bear skyscraper-high taxes. A family of four with a taxable income of $15,000 pays $179 a year in city income tax, in addition to $476 in state income tax and hefty sales, cigarette and gasoline taxes. Not many citizens think...
Last year its output of goods and services leaped nearly 40%, to $25 billion -mainly because its oil revenues hit $10 billion. Among the members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, Venezuela stands out for its additional wealth in iron ore, asphalt, diamonds and hydroelectric power. In Caracas, a...