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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: bonnuss_in_austin who wrote (34051)	10/18/2001 2:53:15 PM
From: J. C. Dithers	Respond to of 82486

BIA, about city skylines- I think they have tremendous psychological significance. Structures definitely have a personna all unto themselves. The Empire State Building is the classic example. From "King Kong" to "An Affair to Remember," that structure has a true place in peoples hearts. If I had been advising the terrorists ... well, never mind. Whenever I go to Chicago, it is the Wrigley Building, towering over the Chicago River, that draws me like a magnet, never mind the Sears tower. Then there are the bridges, like the Golden Gate, Seattle's Space Needle, the Washington Monument, or even Yankee Stadium, and so many more. It clearly goes beyond the mere historical significance of such creations. They are just such a part of our culture, so familiar, so comforting. Slightly digressing, I think it stinks now to name structures after people, or, Oh My God, after corporations. If they ever change the Golden Gate Bridge to the Tony Bennett Memorial Bridge, I'm leaving the country for good. JC