While the focus in the landscape of Old World cities was commonly government structures, churches, or the residences of rulers, th...e landscape and the skyline of American cities have boasted their hotels, department stores, office buildings, apartments, and skyscrapers. In this grandeur, Americans have expressed their Booster Pride, their hopes for visitors and new settlers, and customers, for thriving commerce and industry.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The kind of power mothers have is enormous. Take the skyline of Istanbul--enormous breasts, pathetic little willies, a final reven...ge on Islam. I was so scared I had to crouch in the bottom of the boat when I saw it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The structure of a jazz performance is, like that of the New York skyline, a tension of cross-purposes. In jazz at its characteris...tic best, each player seems to be--and has the sense of being--on his own. Each goes his own way, inventing rhythmic and melodic patterns which, superficially, seem to have as little relevance to one another as the United Nations building does to the Empire State. And yet the outcome is a dazzlingly precise creative unity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Good-by, my book! Like mortal eyes, imagined ones must close some day. Onegin from his knees will rise--but his creator strolls aw...ay. And yet the ear cannot right now part with the music and allow the tale to fade; the chords of fate itself continue to vibrate; and no obstruction for the sage exists where I have put The End: the shadows of my world extend beyond the skyline of the page, blue as tomorrow's morning haze--nor does this terminate the phrase.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »