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In 1976, Fulton Fish Market moved over 119 million lbs. of fresh fish. Most of the catch is salt water fish trucked in from along the Eastern Seaboard. Fresh water fish such as brook trout comes in from Idaho, Wisconsin and Ontario. Only one boat-a sea scalloper--comes into...
Daley's Chicago worked downtown and along the lakefront where the beautiful buildings he gave the city serve as a testament to his ability to improve Chicago. But the skyscrapers and architectural wonders--for all their importance--distract visitors from seeing the decaying inner city, which doesn't work so...
These pictures are without exception more than just likeable, though. Lifson's lens views a subject and catches the formal connections and the frame intrinsic to that subject. "Niagara Falls", for example, is seen through a glass window and balcony that enclose the foreground. A row of skyscrapers provide the...
In his classic The Mind of the South, W.J. Cash considered the new skyscrapers and pondered: "Softly, do you not hear behind that the gallop of Jeb Stuart's cavalrymen?" At times the hoofbeats of a defeated army are still audible, even on the courthouse squares, even in the...
BUT POLITICAL CHANGES are not Carpentier's major concern here. He leaves rigorous analysis of either Marxism or the Machiavellian method of dictatorship to a historical study. Reasons of State concentrates instead on portraying the myriad cultural changes in Europe and America that resulted from the First World War. The...