Word: urbane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cuban hounds," that were exported to the United States. Spanish generals invented the system of concentrating a rural population in garrisons and declaring anyone outside them a rebel--a tactic that the United States would employ in Vietnam as its "strategic hamlets" policy. Cuban revolutionaries refined the technique of urban terrorism as far back as the Twenties...
...Arch and Other Sundials, urban redesign and sculpture by Mark Faverman. At MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies, through February. What to do with obtrusive structures, or Holyoke Center newly illuminated...
Soon after Bailey entered the Hearst case, he settled on his line of defense, and the girl who had listed her employment as "urban guerrilla" when she was arrested began to acquire a new look. Gone was the braless, T-shirted image; Patty took to appearing in court wearing a pantsuit and turtleneck, or a blouse with a flowing bow at the neck...
There is a certain kind of urban character who, however lightly we brush against him, instantly leaks the psychopathy of everyday anguish all over us. He is a man working in a menial job that brings him into constant, envious touch with people more fortunate than he, a man enraged by the bad deal life has given him but unable to articulate that rage. Instead, he is given to fantasies ranging from the glumly sexual to the murderously violent. He is, finally, a man of muttered imprecations and sudden, brooding silences; which of these moods is most alarming is hard...
Fatness is the beginning, though not the end, of Taxi Driver's problems. For one thing, Travis is more a case study than a character. The backgrounds against which he moves never transcend the documentary category, never fuse into an artful vision of urban hellishness. Scorsese's work may be best-of-breed, but it is a familiar breed. The movie has an air of recent discovery, of shocked innocence about the tawdry quality of city life that is gratingly naive...