Word: urbane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many thousands of mainlanders have relatives, and Portuguese-administered, anything-goes Macao. The twice-yearly Canton Trade Fair lures swarms of foreign wheeler-dealers, from Macy's and Neiman-Marcus, Fiat and Hitachi. Yet Canton is no showcase. The Cantonese do not radiate the physical vitality of most urban Chinese; many are poorly clothed. There are more people milling aimlessly and noisily around than in other Chinese cities. The Pekingese call the Cantonese "shrike-voiced barbarians...
...eleven student volunteers from the landscape architecture and architecture departments will analyze the historical influences of French Canadian immigration on architecture in Lowell. They will use the results of their studies to develop a design for the center and then choose an appropriate site in Lowell's National Urban Park...
...Franco-American Center is the first center proposed for the National Urban Park. It will house exhibits celebrating the community's history, as well as classrooms, a library, a crafts workshop, a market and a French-American restaurant...
...around in animal skins and try to turn every election into a blood match against the five boroughs. Duryea, they want to think, symbolizes the Republican Party's new era--a shift away from the rural, anti-city sloganeering of past elections, a conscious effort to win the big urban voting blocs that for decades (Rockefeller excepted), have been under Democratic lock and key. For the first time in memory, they argue, none of the candidates for governor or lieutenant governor is an "upstater": Duryea's running mate, Rep. Bruce Caputo, operates out of Westchester, while the Democratic ticket...
...Inferiority Complex [Urban Bliss]: Rumor has it at the Harvard-Dartmouth game in Hanover two years ago there was an L.L. Bean vendor in the stands...