Word: stucco
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...really exist. The city is spread out like a vast semi-subrub. Driving through Los Angeles is like driving through an endless stretch of Somerville; it's noisy and hectic and you keep waiting for the suburbs to appear, but they never do. Everything is made out of stucco. Stucco banks, stucco taco joints, stucco supermarkets and stucco homes...
...brick and stucco bank branch on East Broadway in Tucson has only four tellers' windows. But it is the Tucson cash center for the First National Bank of Arizona, the state's second largest bank. Nearby branches holding more cash than their prescribed limits send the surplus there, and any enterprising robber could have learned the branch's role...
...film jumps back and forth among images of demolition and urban renewal: a billboard on a lone, dilapidated building proclaims. "Atlantic City, you're back on the map--again," while in a spectacular shot before the credits director Louis Malle shows us an aerial view of a massive stucco hotel collapsing into a heap of dust and rubble. Malle's Atlantic City is a patchwork of the old corruption and the new, numbers-runners and cocaine dealers, rickety frame houses and opulent casinos, aging beauty queens and female croupiers-in-training. There's always some new growth blistering out from...
ROYAL PALMS ALWAYS look mangy in Los Angeles--like furry, drooping tarantulas. They are hugely out of place. There's never been anything tropical about L.A., and no matter how many improbable pastels they slap down on the stucco bungalows, it will always remain a splayed, urban steamvat...
From the air Medford at first looks fairly familiar, a blacktop and stucco fantasia of gas stations and fast-fooderies sprawling out along a meandering, not-too-clean creek. But the mountains that rim the valley are tipped with snow and trimmed with dark firs that wipe the skyline like distant eyelashes. "Gee, Dad," the boy says, nose pressed to the window, "could we really move out here...