Word: urbanism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Four writers, among them Joan Didion, are drawn by the urban razzle and fatal glamour of Miami, the definitive city...
Wilson's walk on the wild side is set in a New York City greasy spoon. This diner serves as an oasis in the urban wasteland for more than 20 outcasts and losers of every stripe--hoods, hustlers, whores, queens, dykes, drunks, punks and junkies...
Taylor's main task will be to ensure that both the PBH program and the Harvard ones--the Freshman Urban Program, the Harvard Outdoor Program and a House-based neighborhood program--run smoothly...
...Vrdolyak those interests are tied to supporting the white ethnic workers upon whose votes the urban political machine originally had been based. To its credit, the Democratic party no longer represents only the interests of this group of white people. It has in recent years recognized the Blacks that live in the city...
...action starts in 1970 when heavily armed urban guerrillas rob a Brink's armored truck at a Massachusetts shopping mall. Two years later the merry band empties a Wells Fargo van in the same general area. "We're not dealing here & with a group of retards, my friends," says Inspector John D. Richards of the state police. "These are sharp minds we've got on our hands, making these withdrawals...