Word: sprawls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...novel or poem. Rhoades' Uno Momento, for example, calls to mind a funky urban hipster who empties out his over-filled garage to host a dance party complete with pulsing music and flashing lights. In Chris Burden's Pizza City, a room filled with tables supporting a bizarre urban sprawl suggests an overzealous collector of model train sets and holiday porcelain villages from mail-order catalogs. Likewise, Bryan Crockett's gigantic balloon explosion could only have been made by a slightly obsessive character, perhaps an eccentric clown bored with his mastery of simple balloon wiener dogs and poodles...
DIED. ROBERT SARNOFF, 78, second-generation chief of RCA; in New York City. In the 1950s and '60s, Sarnoff preened the company's NBC subsidiary into the peacock network, introducing color and expanding news. When the conglomerate he built suffered from sprawl, G.E. snatched...
Once again in the American media there is disturbing news from the Holy Land. To quote the Israel/Palestine Center for Research and Information, "The specifics involve the construction of a new neighborhood for Israelis to be built in the southern part of Jerusalem aimed at creating an Israeli urban sprawl from Jerusalem to Bethlehem called Har Homa (in Hebrew meaning the Mountain of the Wall)." While more than half of the land on Har Homa is presently owned by Jews, there are several Palestinian villages which would need to be "re-located" in order for the construction of the homes...
...Livingston where you mostly hear it--rumors about layoffs at the lumber mill, fishing reports on the nearby Yellowstone River--is the downtown post office. The 1914 beaux arts sandstone edifice, surrounded by coffee shops, saddleries and movie theaters that have survived the town's trend toward franchised sprawl, is a kind of communal hitching post...
Instead of getting lost in the service sprawl, students said they were excited at the opportunity to volunteer...