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While he was publisher of the Gainesville Sun, a daily newspaper covering life in north and central Florida, Harrison grew interested in a local movement, led by the League of Women Voters in Gainesville, to secure federal urban renewal funds in order to revitalize the poorest sections of the city...
...second part, readers of the arch-serious Hours will be surprised to find themselves in a jittery, edgy, very contemporary mystery story about urban terrorism. And then, in another sharp turn, the third part takes us to a future Manhattan populated by lifelike androids and lizard-like aliens, refugees from another planet. (That section also features Cunningham's first-ever car chase.) What holds the disparate components of Specimen Days together is Cunningham's intense focus on New York City as a crucible in which we're forced to confront the radically foreign-even alien-realities of death, technology, urban...
...while, Batman Begins is fitfully entertaining. Maybe the Force, with its ascetic demands, is too strong with our modern superheroes: enigmatic mind games are played as the karate chops fly. It may also be true that urban dystopia has become too much a ruling cliche in movie art direction. The weather in Gotham is perpetually inclement, and its garbage is forever uncollected...
Fitness experts increasingly believe that the solution lies in finding new ways to make physical movement an unavoidable part of everyday life. Some of the best thinking along those lines has come from a new alliance of public-health experts, urban planners and architects nurtured by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. That collaboration helped promote New Urbanism, a movement to build "walkable," mixed-use communities in which residences are a short distance from commercial centers. It also spurred efforts to retrofit cities and towns with what some call "complete streets"--thoroughfares that include sidewalks, bike paths and a protective strip...
DIED. EDDIE ALBERT, 99, affably comedic actor of stage and screen, best known for playing an urban sophisticate transplanted with his wife (Eva Gabor) to the country, in the 1960s sitcom Green Acres; in Los Angeles. After lead roles on Broadway (Room Service, The Boys from Syracuse), he won an Oscar nomination as the jaunty photographer and pal to reporter Gregory Peck in Roman Holiday. But he could seethe too, winning acclaim as a psychopathic infantry officer in the 1956 World War II drama Attack and another Oscar nomination as the forbidding father of Cybill Shepherd's Wasp princess...