Word: urban
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Remnant" incorporates a series of atonal compositions which further add to the work's subliminal spell. While one scene mixes chromatic pitches with blobs of piano notes, another combines the shriveled sound of a rewinding tape recorder with the cacophony of urban traffic. Bellowing horns mark the beginning of Ward's descent into the afterlife. Ward's grandfather drags him around the room suffocating him with a trumpet. Though Ward manages to blow, the sound is like that of a dying animal. For the most part, however, these atonal compositions lurk beneath the viewer's attention...
...economically advanced society. The more costly checks an employer must institute to ensure his customers and employees aren't stealing, the fewer he is able to expand his business, the fewer people he is able to hire. One quick example which has stuck in my mind: an employee at Urban Outfitters in the square once told me that the store's annual losses to shoplifting were several times his annual salary...
...program complements three existing orientation programs: the Harvard-Radcliffe Science Alliance, the First-year Outdoor Program (FOP) and the First-year Urban Program...
They represent the ultimate urban horror. Anonymous, malevolent packages planted by any of the thousands of subway riders and set to kill huge numbers of passersby indiscriminately. The prospective victims are temporarily captives in a subterranean steel and concrete execution chamber, and they could have died by simply by drawing a breath. The dead would have been selected by sheer chance, depending on petty details like which commuter was on schedule and who had dawdled over breakfast and taken a later train...
Talabani's party is made up mainly of urban intellectuals and leftists, while Barzani, 48, is a parochial tribal chieftain wary of the West whose political base remains in the countryside. Over the years he has favored negotiation with Baghdad, while the 62-year-old Talabani wants confrontation. Talabani shares the dream of other Kurds of an independent Kurdistan that includes parts of Iraq, Iran and Turkey. When U.S. officials visit Talabani, he regularly serves them turkey for dinner so they will not miss the message that he wants to nibble at his neighbor...