... . As more than one critic has noted, Miss Martin's work of the time does have certain affinities with Kelly's brightly colored paintings of geometrical shapes. For example, her twelve-inch-square painting Islands No. 1 (1960), a work in oil and pencil on canvas that was included in the Whitney show, consists of a rectangular grid made up of rows of short horizontal dashes ... or hierarchical order among the modules, and the field, or space, is inseparable from the design elements within it. Miss Martin's early grid drawings, which were almost always nine inches square, featured ruled lin...

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... is known as Canal Street. 8" By 1811 a new neighborhood was built over the location of the filled in pond. This was named Paradise Square. Mostly wooden homes were built here and by the 1820's their foundations began sinking into the unstable land causing the wooden frames to tilt. The ... buildings were structurally unsound, the decaying landfill became infested with mosquitos and soon the middle class families moved out of Paradise Square to higher ground. The poverty stricken, lower class people quickly flocked to these rundown buildings which were transformed into tenements9. These t...

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... business center expanded in all distractions from the core which is Main street and Roosevelt Avenue. This junction becomes the third busiest intersection in New York besides only Times Square and Herald Square. Businesses, wages and employment in Flushing have grown at a rate that far outpaces the rest of the borough. The burgeoning commercial sector has attracted a stunning amount of large-scale ... ...

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... people are aware, the price of living in New York is extremely high. While this has almost always been the case, Manhattan has seen the largest rise in price per square foot of land out of all the five boroughs. Because of this, fewer and fewer immigrants, those of low economic standing at least, are coming to settle in Manhattan, the ... ...

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... on an emotional level, but also to Travis's inability to connect with other people. In the immediately following scene, Travis and Betsy sit in a coffee shop, at opposite corners of a square table. A vertical steel divider on the window behind them falls exactly between them, and dissects the table, corner to corner. Another example is when Travis drives around in his cab ... ...

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... an electro-classical backing burbles on behind, a modernisation of Kozintev's movement and focusing through Elsinore occurs. With a similar use of close-ups, to that of Kozintev, the billboard of Times Square is shown displaying the logo of the Denmark Corporation and the shiny metallic sign of "Elsinore Hotel", a vast hotel, the model realisation of Hamlet/Claudius" domain is given context. Once ... ...

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... sophisticated infrastructures offer insufficient protection against bombs loaded with carpenter nails, elementary nuclear devices, and homemade biological weapons, not to mention computer hackers and hijackers. The devastation of lower Manhattan's square mile, was one of the two most strategic centers of global finance, London's City being the other, says Sassen. Moreover, it was New York's global-city function that came to ... ...

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... , different-looking people, but as New York was a diverse place forty years ago, it was precursor of what our society would become. I also remember a huge sign that loomed over Times Square: "Be Suspicious." I think it might have been something about having discerning taste, but to me it was apocalyptic, because New York, with all its conviviality, could be a very cold place ... ...

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