Word: towns
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...overwhelming 70% of the vote. A voluble former social worker who arrived in San Francisco from Springfield, Mass., in 1966, Agnos, 49, becomes the first non-native to run the city in 40 years. Ever mindful of his outsider's background, Agnos declares, "The center of power in this town has shifted...
...backfired on BankAmerica Corp., once the nation's largest financial institution. The bank has eliminated almost 30% of its work force and auctioned off moneymaking assets; still it has not turned a profit in three years. Even Standard Oil, the state's largest company, has retrenched in its headquarters town. The decline of the city's corporate and charitable base occurred at the same time voters were putting restrictions on further commercial growth, including last month's referendum rejecting plans for a new downtown baseball stadium. "The city is not antibusiness," says the mayor- elect, whose platform attempts...
...example, is home to about 975,000 refugees, 70% from Ethiopia and the rest from Uganda, Zaire and Chad. While traditionally gracious hosts to those in need, the Sudanese are also enduring a drought and are rapidly losing patience. Earlier this year Ethiopian refugees streaming into the Sudanese border town of Kassala were attacked by mobs. "We have been involved in refugee problems since the Congo crisis of the 1960s," says Al-Amin Abdul Latif, Sudan's Ambassador to Egypt. "Enough is enough...
...artist of ordinary ambitions. But his ambitions are not bound up in the cult of celebrity that has riddled the art world in the '80s. He shuns publicity, permits virtually no photographs and spends most of his time behind the locked gates of his studio in the unremarkable German town of Buchen. "Live like a bourgeois, think like a god" -- if any painter has taken Gustave Flaubert's famous injunction to heart, it is Kiefer...
...film, which Director Abuladze calls a "tragic phantasmagoria," uses allegory, fantasy and surrealism to evoke the terror of a totalitarian system. His central character is Varlam Aravidze, the mayor of a provincial town. Varlam combines Stalin's close-cropped haircut, Hitler's mustache and Mussolini's black shirt to embody the image of a universal tyrant. Although the setting and time are undefined -- secret police appear alternately as medieval knights or spear-wielding Roman centurions -- there is no doubt that the real subject is Stalinism...