Word: urbanely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Interesting. A gypsy society continuing to function between (and under) the tight-woven lines of our urban, industrial culture, roaming around, making a living out of fortunetelling and other ancient scams, avoiding even such basic paper work as birth certificates. To the degree that King of the Gypsies shows us something of how these people survive, it is an interesting and rather original movie...
...Cambodian government blamed the military setbacks on Vietnamese "arch-slaughterers," who they said had planned attacks on several urban areas in the provinces, causing great loss of property and life...
...Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) board of directors has already approved the $71.3 million bid, submitted by the Perini Corporation of Framingham, Mass. The Urban Mass Transportation Authority (UMTA) must finalize the award of the federally-funded contract...
...sure, China has its imposing factories and impressive, lush communes to show off to visitors. But to wander into small urban streets or tiny rural villages is to discover what may come closest to the real China. It is a country with a long...
...thing is certain: the convention is wreaking irreversible changes in the nation's topography, economy and patterns of social behavior. Consider the urban landscape. Cavernous convention centers, often municipally financed and usually little more than a big enclosed space, are popping up across the country like second-story men at a jewelers convention. Some 60 cities have built one of those concrete boxes, and another eleven are on the way. Meantime, hotels that cater to the convention trade are being expanded or else threatened by newer, larger ones. Las Vegas' 2,783-room Hilton, the nation's roomiest, has been...