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...because of the de-industrialization that has displaced large segments of the working class since the 1970s. For these Gen Xers, the problems of the inner city go far deeper than a slim section of jobs in the want ads. Interviewees consistently say that the sense of community, the thread that once held urban cities together, has frayed and, in some cases, split altogether. They talk about neighborhoods polarized by racism, gang violence, drug proliferation, loss of cultural identity and domestic violence. The candor is stark; the level of detail often horrifying...
...unless you are using it for a research paper, The Unknown City can be hard to get through. Perhaps it is a function of a culture that looks too much to happy endings, but as you read The Unknown City you find yourself waiting for an auspicious sign or thread of hope. None comes. Perhaps this is expected in a novel, but, in a sociological analysis documenting the lives of men and women only slightly older than ourselves, it is an absence that leaves you altogether unsettled...
...convenient version of 35-mm film. In a rare show of unity, Eastman Kodak and Fuji Photo Film--companies that truly, genuinely detest each other--worked with cameramakers to come up with a new design that solves some of photography's most basic problems, including getting the film to thread through the camera correctly (the No. 1 picture-taking pitfall according to industry surveys). With APS cameras, film cartridges are simply dropped in and thread themselves. You also get a choice of three picture sizes (standard, wide and panoramic), and the prints come back with a visual index sheet...
...oxidation was humanly induced. For one thing, the image is only one fiber deep. "If you lift a crossing fiber, you won't find any discoloration below," he says. The application of acids would not achieve such delicacy. Similarly, the fiber-by-microscopic-fiber gradations, even within a single thread, that make up the figure's exquisite "shading" would defy a human hand, were it engaged in either the application of acid or a rubbing process. Finally, Adler, a recognized expert on certain molecules found in blood, notes emphatically of the crimson stains and rivulets that ornament the shroud...
...might have been different had Bolton started studying voice 20 years ago, but belting ballads has worn his middle range to a thread. Though he squeezes out the necessary high notes, after a fashion, everything else is bad to the point of black comedy, from the flabby scooping in Donizetti's Una furtiva lagrima to the wimpy crooning in Puccini's Che gelida manina (real Italian tenors are not sensitive...