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Rich, who bitterly opposes the Disney park, admits that "the issues of money, urban sprawl and environmental disruption that attend the park are between the Virginia voters and their consciences." (Their consciences appear clear: the Virginia legislature has overwhelmingly approved the idea.) But "the esthetic issues dramatized by Disney's America concern everyone." Why? Because "the battle over Disney's America is part of a much larger struggle between theme-park America and authentic America...
...Angeles, Richard Riordan has a different range of problems -- and a city that ranges over 466 sq. mi. and an even greater sprawl of bureaucracy. The former corporate lawyer has skirted, ignored and bucked the system ever since he won election in a bitterly fought campaign last June. One of his rules for cutting through red tape: "It's easier to get forgiveness than permission." Last month he delivered his first budget, an ingenious $4.3 billion package that would pay for his 18% increase in spending on police, to $463 million, while erasing the $228 million deficit Riordan was handed...
...hard-luck, often desperate fortune seekers who flock to big cities. Imagine in the same way Jakarta or Shanghai. Beyond that, Singapore began its life as a British colony designed to serve as a shipping, administrative and financial center. Today it is a highly skilled society without the urban sprawl and rural poverty that afflict larger nations. An analogue might be Manhattan incorporated as a republic between the Battery and 96th Street, with its own flag, armed forces and immigration controls...
...like depictions of the rustic life of those quaint foreign folk. Authors tend to subscribe to the crude narrative conventions of culture clash and nation of contrasts, where faraway lands seduce the reader with their irrational, undeveloped, unhurried, unchanging, quintessentially un-Western ways. And readers, doubtless locked in urban sprawl and economic recession, have lapped up such escapist literature with alacrity...
...Strippers with hearts of gold, like Urbana Sprawl, who compares her profession to wing walking: "You're fine, long as you don't look down." And Monique Jr., who assures a nervous dancer, "It's a slumber party, hon. That's how come we're in our nighties...