Word: urban
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...City Council, which passed the 1991 law, disagreed. Calling advertisements urban nuisances and an eyesore, the council gave Ackerley and the Revere-based Rite Media Inc., which owns the other five billboards, four years to remove them...
Nickinello said billboards are oftenunattractive but should be accepted as a part ofthe urban landscape...
Kearse has also been a partner at Hughes Hubbard & Reed in New York. She has been a member of the Urban League and the National Women's Pairs Bridge Champion...
...smaller towns superstores are providing a welcome -- and previously unknown -- burst of urban energy. Borders opened a store in rural Lancaster, Pennsylvania (pop. 55,550), in late 1992, and it is now the most popular spot in town, with its Saturday-night musical performances. "There are no major museums or galleries here," says Trudi Musselman, a management consultant who used to live in New York City. "When Borders opened, it was a godsend. I go there now before the library...
...Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky, a new pop opera by avant-garde composer John Adams, radical black poet June Jordan, iconoclastic director Peter Sellars and 26 urban-graffiti artists, raises an interesting question: Is it possible to be so politically correct that one becomes politically incorrect? Or to put it another way, Are some groups of people so inherently villainous that it is perfectly acceptable to stereotype, ridicule and otherwise bash them...