Word: skyscrapersful
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A capricious spring surprised and bestirred much of the nation last week. While New York City's skyscrapers shimmered in 96° heat, the highest temperature ever recorded there in April, Floridians endured an unseemly chill and tornadoes skipped across Oklahoma and Texas. Heavy rains deluged Texas, Oklahoma and...
The contrast of wealth and poverty so apparent in most Latin American countries is less stark in Puerto Rico. Between the shacks and the skyscrapers lies a buffer zone of crackerbox concrete housing developments with a Volkswagen in every garage. Twenty years of industrial development as a self-governing commonwealth...
It all seems to be there: the gauzy profile of skyscrapers seen from the Statue of Liberty, the brokers and bums and cops, the lunatic bustle, the claustrophobic alleys and carnival vitality. This gorgeous parody, one of the largest environmental sculptures (other than earthworks) ever made in America, is called...
In a world that takes the easy way out, Rocky insists on not taking any "cheap shots" and working hard. When he finally reaches the ring, Rocky, at 190 pounds, is obviously and superbly prepared. He has trained--punching, dancing, working on the elements of his style--in a way...
JR by William Gaddis. In his first novel since The Recognitions (1955), the author chronicles the improbable fortunes of an eleven-year-old tycoon and takes a gargantuan swipe at contemporary skyscrapers of Babel.