Word: westerners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chicago, the 38-year-old Merchandise Mart, the world's largest commercial building, occupies air rights over the former site of the Chicago and North Western terminal. As a national rail hub, Chicago now figures to get a major face lifting because of newer airspace projects. The biggest beneficiary is likely to be the Illinois Central Railroad, which owns air rights above its tracks and right-of-way along Lake Michigan worth at least $185 million. Two of the most imposing structures on the Chicago skyline, the 41-story Prudential Building and the 40-story Outer Drive East apartment...
...need of new sources of money, are also getting into the act. One way is by selling air rights above freeways, which often cut wide swaths across land that once yielded badly needed taxes. Cincinnati, for example, has sold air rights over a stretch of interstate highway to Western & Southern Life Insurance Co. Even in Los Angeles, which still has plenty of open space, governmental agencies are studying plans for permitting developers to build over the freeways that stretch through the city's downtown area. In Washington, the Department of Labor plans to put up a $47.6 million office...
Insurance and American Amicable, and the First Western Bank & Trust Co. of Los Angeles...
Eventually, Godard brings the recruits home and shows that to the spoiled belongs the victory. Ulysses and Michelangelo, now maimed and babbling, carry with them a trunkful of treasure. The loot is a lampoon of Western culture: hundreds of picture postcards that juxtapose Ava Gardner's face and an Ingres nude, Volkswagen factories and the pyramids. In the end, the soldiers are themselves consumed by the anarchic "peace" that follows victory in which sound trucks thread the littered streets blaring, "Our enemies are democrats, Marxists, Jews...
...Death," runs the old insurance man's gag, "is nature's way of telling you to slow down." The joke is the cinematic principle of this catatonic, corpse-cluttered western, which comes as close as a film can to a still picture...