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January 19, 2009
You do not see that much
Take a look at the last line in the following paragraph. It contains thee uncommon pluralizations. I may have never seen a sentence like that before.
Baltimore, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh were prototypes of the economic development fad of the 1990s: government-financed "investments" in economic development. They all practiced what was called "tin cup urbanism" -- the belief that the rest of society owed large taxpayer transfers to the urban cores from which most of us have fled. They all supped from the same cup: center city stadia, aquaria and subsidized retailia.
Sports Mania Is a Poor Substitute for Economic Success
What a pleasure to see English used well. Other beautiful sentences from the piece:
Football triumphalism is a kind of civic cocaine, creating a sense of accomplishment where the reality is otherwise. (Maybe that's what's behind Western Europe's soccer fanaticism.) ... Steelers bars are the visible cultural artifact of a kind of economic diaspora.
Posted by OneEyedMan at January 19, 2009 7:37 AM
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