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...primary purpose" of the church and that some of its property in the city is thus not exempt from taxation. The U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service is seeking to deport Moon and his wife Hak Ja Han, contending that she falsified papers to gain status as a permanent resident alien, making her husband's residency illegal...
...architecture, epitomized by Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright. But in the '30s its heritage was cast away for a mess of ideological pottage, cooked up in the Bauhaus by various Germans and mittel Europeans under the sway of Walter Gropius and Mies van der Rohe. This wholly alien style-monastic, severe, technology obsessed and full of socialist implications, smelling of Utopia and garlic-was brought to America, a country that (as Wolfe argues in one of his more dizzying transports of sociological fancy) had no need for worker housing and was therefore ill-fitted...
...with American machine culture. Le Corbusier derived a good deal of his architectural syntax from the "functional" shapes of American grain elevators, docks and airplanes. And when European modernists in the early '20s dreamed up their Wolkenkratzers (cloud scratchers), the nearest the German language could come to the alien Yankee concept of a skyscraper, critics accused the modernists of deserting their native traditions and caving in to transatlantic cultural imperialism...
...believe either is enrolled in 12 credit hours"--a requirement for alien students to remain in the country--Geil added...
...darting curiosity. This former high school jock may lack all but the rudiments of an education, but he is one of those, in line with Henry James' advice, on whom nothing is lost. Driving around Brewer, he registers what is playing at the four-theater movie complex (ALIEN MOONRAKER MAIN EVENT ESCAPE FROM ALCATRAZ); he listens to disco on the car radio and muses on the accomplishment of the Bee Gees, "white men who have done this wonderful thing of making themselves sound like black women...