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In cities past, present, and future, in metropoli real and imagined, meet mutilated warrior-women, dead boys, mechanical dogs, escape artists and more.
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The very large expenditure in which the Commonwealth thus acts as disbursing agent for the so-called metropoli - tan district was made necessary by the increasing popula - tion of this area and]) y a due regard to the health and comfort of the inhabitants, Init the burden of its gradual payment has hardly yet begun to be borne by those who are to reap the benefit of it.
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The "metropoli" of Central America keeps reinventing itself century after century and I wonder if I would recognize her as that hangout for my middle class youth, that centre of the universe "around which my life seems to orbit.
AntiguaDailyPhoto.Com Manolo Romero Escobar 2009
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Victoria lies in the shadow of the States and the metropolises (metropoli?) of the Pacific Northwest, but refuses to be defined by them; likewise, their film festival doggedly ignores its larger and more “important” cousins to the south and east – Portland, Seattle, Whistler and of course Vancouver, all of whom get more films, bigger films, more guests, more press.
Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2009
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For a week, I'd like to visit one of those futuristic metropoli.
Archive 2008-02-01 2008
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For a week, I'd like to visit one of those futuristic metropoli.
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Doug Cummings on Tekkon Kinkreet: The film is a visual wonder, and I say that as jaded as can be regarding pat futuristic metropolises (metropoli?).
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We certainly will see some wind from, say, Mobile, Alabama, all the way up to the metropolises or metropoli of New York and D.C. over the next two days.
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The center of things is nothing if not interesting, and downtown Chicago is certainly the center of all things in the 2,400 miles between Atlantic and Pacific metropoli.
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From major urban metropoli to the rural heartlands, here in the US, green products are literally jumping off the shelves.
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