Word: sprawls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...folk who spend their vacations, as always, in cottages in the woods. Sellars, 26, who came to national attention with a production of The Inspector General at the American Repertory Theater at Harvard while he was still an undergraduate there, has said in interviews that Summerfolk's very sprawl and lack of discipline struck him as quintessentially American. He believed that with only a few word changes, it could be set in the U.S. of 1984. That was his first mistake. Despite such up-to-date props as Hustler magazine and barbecue aprons that say KISS THE CHEF...
Because the rural economy is especially unpromising, jobless Peruvians have been migrating to the capital in frightening numbers. A pleasant colonial-style city of 1.5 million inhabitants 20 years ago, Lima has become a nightmarish sprawl of 6.5 million. The city has grown so fast that suburban slum districts housing 500,000 people are not even included on current maps. Almost 40% of the country's 18 million people are now crowded into the capital. Says Senator Manuel Ulloa Ellas, a close adviser to Belaúnde: "For many of these people, there are no jobs, no services...
...supposed to illuminate the hopes of the young. It does nothing of the kind. Brother and sister, husband and lover all perform in a declamatory style more appropriate to pageants than to plays. Moreover, Theodore Mann's direction takes the Bergers' zoo story and makes it sprawl inappropriately on the Circle in the Square's arena stage. Seen in the round, Odets is cruelly exposed; phrases that once seemed freshly coined on the streets of New York now appear to have been copied from bumper stickers ("Life shouldn't be printed on dollar bills...
...monolithic high-rises that make up New York City's St. Nicholas public housing project sprawl over an area roughly the size of Rockefeller Center. But there the comparison ends. The hallways are easels for spray-painted graffiti. The stairwells reek of urine and ammonia...
...company Morgan found when he arrived in California consisted of a dozen separate corporate satrapies devoid of planning or consultation. At least 49 Atari buildings were spread around company headquarters in the Silicon Valley sprawl of Sunnyvale, Calif. Often the heads of those far-flung divisions were not even located in the Atari headquarters building. The company had to call in a management firm to locate some 48 engineering groups in the U.S. It found a one-man operation in Louisville, apparently there because that was where the engineer preferred to live. The company had five finance departments, each with...