Word: urban
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...That doesn't begin to describe it. Using projected images, video footage, crisp sound effects, dazzling lighting and an acrobatic cast that flits around on wires, McBurney melds the three stories into a meditation on anxiety and loss amid the placid routines of life in urban Japan. The kitchen salesman's elephant fixation ruins a potential romance. The larcenous couple learn they don't really know each other ("What was she doing with ski masks?" asks the exasperated husband. "We've never gone skiing.") The sleepless housewife realizes she despises her well-ordered life and runs off to a potential...
...took office. He did introduce rules to clean up off-road diesel-powered vehicles like farm tractors and bulldozers. Critics say the drop in water-quality complaints reflects laggard enforcement: criminal water-pollution prosecutions are down 28% since 2001. In 2002, Bush signed a law aimed at revitalizing abandoned urban industrial sites...
...whistles sound across the scruffy courtyard as the residents of Grozny doze through a sticky, mosquito-filled night. The men guarding this apartment building are signaling to one another that all is clear. They're not police or regular soldiers but lookouts for a Wahhabi Jamaat, an urban guerrilla group of about 20 men loyal to Chechen rebel commander Shamil Basayev. Unlike other Chechens fighting purely for their republic's independence, the Wahhabis want to create an Islamic state across the Caucasus and are almost fundamentalist in their outlook. They are deeply critical of the easygoing approach of more secular...
Traffic is a nightmare, and it's not getting any better. Americans in urban areas spent an average of 46 hr. choked up on the highway in 2002, up from 16 hr. in 1982, according to the Texas Transportation Institute...
Programming for LOGO, which will debut mostly in urban markets like Los Angeles, New York City and San Francisco, will include a variety of reality shows, movies such as Gods and Monsters and An Early Frost, and gay-themed specials like the annual GLAAD Media Awards. One potential new series, My Fabulous Gay Wedding, would follow a couple from wedding planning to the altar. Cher and her daughter Chastity Bono are producing Family Outing, which will chronicle coming-out stories. While straight people will have a presence, LOGO looks at life with a decidedly gay lens, with no apologies...