Word: skyscraperism
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Another genre might be called Installation Romance. By George R. Stewart (Storm), out of Vicki Baum (Grand Hotel), such books lure the reader into the pullulating heart of some modern institution, which thereafter teems with professional expertise and ersatz emotion. Among the best and most successful recent examples are Arthur...
Even the construction boom has brought its toll in dirt, noise, and the destruction of treasured landmarks and favorite spots. The good small restaurants that were the city's pride are being torn down, to be replaced by 15-minute-service counters in skyscraper basements. In the Wall Street...
Bewildering Streets. But such efficiency goes only so far. Traffic is not just slow; it is torpid-and with the influx of Olympics visitors, it may well come to a halt at times. The trip from downtown hotels to the games used to take 30 minutes; now it takes at...
A bottle smashes in the middle of the street in front of a dozen Jocks leaning against parked cars. Because it is completely dark and Carmen is a skyscraper, no one saw it coming. Three water bombs suddenly splat in front of them. More shouting and Beta huddles on retaliation...
When visitors walk into the U.S. Pavilion at the Venice Biennale next month, they may have trouble believing their eyes. There before them will be a crazily tilting, garishly colored mock-up of Chicago (see color opposite), including a 14-ft.-long Michigan Avenue Bridge crowded with traffic and pedestrians...