Word: urbanism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Urban Outfitters ornaments...
...only began writing at the age of 45. In seven novels and in the screenplays he wrote for Billy Wilder and Alfred Hitchcock, Chandler scripted much of the unshaven poetry and arsenic idealism that form us now, and haunt us still, in Mickey Spillane beer ads and smoky urban videos, from Jack Nicholson's Chinatown to Joan Didion's Malibu...
...Public education here could be transformed into a model for urban school systems across the country." Silber has labelled the BU plan an "institutional response to the disappearing traditional family unit...
Hills, 54, is a lawyer who served as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development during the Ford administration from 1975-1977. She had previously served as an assistant attorney general...
...city life -- in the Alexandrian period, around 250 B.C.; two centuries later, with Vergil's Eclogues and Georgics, it is in full spate; and from then on, Latin literature pullulates with rustic shepherds, flutes, nymphs and country retreats. When the classics were revived by Renaissance scholars (no strangers to urban anxiety themselves), the fantasy of the locus amoenus, the sylvan wilderness as "delightful place," moved to the forefront of the Western imagination. There it still reigns, vastly complicated and mutated by real necessity, in the form of the environmental movement...