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...blame themselves, which I find much more attractive. In "Will We Ever Learn" for example: "Do you think it's human/To except to be loved from foot to head?/Well my head's been on holiday/Since the day we met..." Or in "Ahprahran," for example (Prahran being the Melbourne suburb where the Meadows brother live): "Last Sunday I heard myself say/A good day for you is a good day for me/Can't believe I've sunk this low/Is this something good? I don't know..." "Aloha Street" alternates the self-reproachful lines of the verses with a rebarbative four-note...
This most recent experiment was performed over a four-month period in 1961 and 1962 at the state school in Wrentham, a suburb located an hour's drive south of Boston...
...state's only seismic menace. A web of smaller cracks crisscrosses the fragile California crust. Many of these faults are well known. But others lie hidden deep underground, like the one that gave Los Angeles its latest disaster. Until the earth moved, the residents of the northwestern suburb of Northridge had no idea that a deadly fault lay right below them, nine miles down...
Today almost every big-city downtown has new skyscrapers that endeavor to look like old skyscrapers. Almost every suburb has a shopping center decorated with phony arches, phony pediments, phony columns. Two decades after Venturi proposed, with the intellectual's standard perverse quasi-affection, that Vegas could be a beacon for the nation's architecture, his manifesto had transformed America. Forget the Bauhaus and your house -- it is the Vegas aesthetic, architecture as grandiose cartoon, that has become the American Establishment style. And so the splendidly pyramidal new Luxor and cubist new MGM Grand (both the work of local architect...
...attended a public school in a Washington, D.C. Suburb. When I was a senior, our newspaper staff debated an advertisement from the Sexual Minority Youth Assistance League: SMYAL. Like Bradley Smith, SMYAL widely distributed its message; offering an ad to nearly every school paper in the Washington area. Unlike Bradley Smith, SMYAL wasn't seeking to refute the truth. The group was a counseling service for gay, bisexual and lesbian teenagers...